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Macaronic Poetry 

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COLLECTED 

WITH AN 

INTRODUCTION 

BY 

JAMES APPLETON MORGAN, A. M. 



" The Latin motto prefixed to the firft edition of my Poems, was a 
puzzle to every one. Not only was it impoffible to tranflate it, but no- 
body could verify the citation, and many were the complaints exprefled to 
me. The fact is, finding nothing fuitable, I invented the following, au- 
thor, volume, and all : Duplex nobis vobifcum et amicitice et fimilium, 
junttarumque camcenarum; quod utinam neque mors folvet, neque 
temporis longinquitas. — Gnofcoll. Epift. ad Car. Uterhov. et Ptol. Lux. 
Taft." Coleridge 



NEW YORK 
PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON 

1872 



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Entered according to Ac"l of Congrefs, in the year 1871, by 

James Appleton Morgan, 
the Office of the Librarian of Congrefs, at Wafhington. 

CM* 

W. L. Shoemaker 
7 S '06 



RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: 
PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. 



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DEDICO. 




PREFACE. 




AMILIARITY breeds contempt. 
Ever fince the Roman tongue has 
been the quarry of fcholars, learned 
men, in their lighter moments, — perhaps out 
of revenge for labored nights and aching tem- 
ples, — or perhaps to prove themfelves on moft 
intimate terms with it, have delighted in bur- 
lefquing its (lately march ; have dared to mock 
the ponderous periods of Tully, or Maro's nu- 
merous flow, by fandwiching trivial French and 
Englifh in between, and chanting in them low 
jeft or ribald fong. The fpecies of compofition 
thence refulting has been dubbed Macaronic 
— the diverfion of fcholars ; being to Literature 
what Opera Bouffe is to Mufic, — fomething to 
be compofed, as Roffini played Offenbach — 
with one finger ; and yet becoming in time fo 

fertile 



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fertile and voluminous, as to almoft touch the 
dignity of a grand divifion in Letters. 

The great Italian Macaronics, indeed, became 
claffic. Enthufiafls like MM. Van de Weyer 
and Delapierre, have hunted for them among 
the rubbifh of years, with wonderful perfiftency, 
and purchafed them at wonderful prices ; the 
latter gentleman publifhing, in 1852, and again 
in 1862, his " Macaroneana," in which latter 
(London, 1862) thefe rather monotonous per- 
formances are religioufly preferved. There 
was a Macaronic work, " Epiftolse Obfcurorum 
Viorum," jmblifhed in Venice in 15 15 (London, 
1 7 10), which, it is related, threw the learned 
Erafmus into fuch paroxyfms of laughter that 
he burft an abfcefs in his face, thereby faving 
himfelf the ordeal of an operation the doctors 
had prefcribed to accomplifh that very refult. 
A Macaronic inftead of a lancet ! Verily, if 
this book can perform that fubftitution for any 
of my fellow-men, I mail not have written in 
vain ! 

The reader who cares to make a laborious 
ftudy of the fubjecl, can find many fources of 

critical 



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critical and bibliographical information.* In 
the pages following, I have treated it, — as, in- 
deed, the Macaronic mould be regarded, — not 
as the " literary folly " of Mr. Hallam, but as 
fimply the paftime and relaxation of learned 
minds, and pretending to be nothing more. 
Francis Mahoney was one of the moft learned 
and able men of his age, — a cardinal's hat 
was at his feet, had he chofen to lift it, — but \ 
he preferred rather to keep his learning and 
ability to himfelf j fcattering what little he al- 
lowed to efcape him, in Sibylline leaves, like 
thofe I have tied together in this book ; and 
achieving, by the little he wrote, what the 
younger Mr. Weller pronounced to be " the 
great art o' letter writing," — making the peo- 
ple wilh that he had written more. 

And after all, in looking over Father 
Prout's career, I am juft as well fatisfied as 

if 

* E. g. Bidermann's Treatife, De Latinitate Maca- 1 
ronica, par F. W. Genthe, Leipfic, 1829. 

Noels Vieux et Noveaux. Paris, 1790. Notices et Ex- ! 
traites de Qiielque Ouvrages ecrit en Patois du Midi de la 
France. Paris, 1840. 



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if he had written a treatife on the Digamma, in 
twelve volumes octavo, or fpent his days like 
Dr. Strong, in grubbing at Greek roots for a 
Dictionary, to be completed (as Adams, who 
had a turn for mathematics, eftimated) in one 
thoufand fix hundred and forty-nine years, and 
confulted, perhaps, in as* many more ! For I 
have never heard that the world was any hap- 
pier for the Digamma ; whereas the man who 
wrote the " Bells of Shandon," has given us 
many a pleafant evening at the inglefide, and 
brightened many a lonely hour. 

This is an iconoclaftic and a utilitarian age ; 
Gradgrind has weighed everything in his terri- 
ble fcales, and beaten out of us every darling 
fiction we were wont to cherifh, and we are Only 
permitted our proteft, — u fe non e vero, e ben 
trov,ato." Not only Mary's Little Lamb, but 
Pocahontas herfelf, is left in the vocative con- 
dition of St. George and his Dragon : — 

To fave a Mayd S. George the Dragon flew ; 

A pretty tale, if all that's told be true ; 

Moft fay there are no Dragons, and 'tis fayd 

There was no George — Pray Heaven there was a Mayd ! 

Perhaps 



Preface. 

Perhaps, then, a book, devoted, like the pref- 
ent, to The Useless, may " fill a void that has 
long been felt," to ufe the ftereotype facred to 
Preface makers all over the world. 

I confefs, in thefe pages, to have taken a 
confiderable liberty with- my fubjecl:. The 
Macaronic is properly a fyftem of Latin inflec- 
tions, joined to words of a vulgar (fee) tongue, 
fuch as French, Englifh, etc. But I have chofen 
to difregard the flrictnefs of the definition, and 
to confider everything macaronic that is writ- 
ten by the aid of more than one language or 
dialect. Had I infilled upon the rigidity of 
the diftinction, I mould have been obliged 
either to omit altogether, or to arbitrarily 
claffify the Englifh hybrids, whofe collection 
has been my main object in the compilation of 
this book ; while, had I not confined myfelf 
herein to what may be called the English 
Macaronic, but drawn from Italian, French, 
and German fources, I fhould have produced, 
with my material, not a volume, but a library 
of excerpta. There are here collected only 
fuch fpecimens as contain Englifh particles in 

their 



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their composition, and I believe that, with the 
exception of Sandy's " Specimens of Macaronic 
Poetry," publimed in London in 183 1 (which is 
now entirely out of print, and very rarely met 
with), the prefent is the firft work of its kind, 
certainly the firft from an American prefs. The 
only departures from the above rule are, the 
reprint of the three alliterative poems, " Pugna 
Porcorum," " Canum cum Cattis," and " De 
Laude Calvorum," in which I hope to be jufti- 
fied by their great value, — if exceeding rarity 
can give value, — and the outlines, in the In- 
troduction, of the fubjecls of Palindromes, 
Chronograms, Anagrams, etc., etc. I have no- 
ticed them generally, becaufe they feem to me 
to poffefs a nature fomething in common with 
my theme ; and I hope — even if I am wrong 
— to be pardoned for the digreffion. Indeed, 
as the doing of all forts of.fenfelefs gyrations 
and contortions in our gymnafiums, gives a fa- 
cility of mufcle that can be turned to more 
profitable performances, and as the* formal has 
never been deemed the molt indifferent branch 
of literature, the following pages might be re- 
garded 



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garded as a fort of Manual of Verbal Calif- 
thenics; and, as fuch, though utterly ufelefs, 
not utterly worthlefs. 

I regard it as at lead a curious circumftance, 
and one that may be, in fome fort, my apology 
for this book, that the mofl widely known and 
belt Macaronic writers have been lawyers. Wit- 
nefs : Antonius de Arena, Jean Baptifte Li- 
chardus, and famous Doctor Geddes, who figns 
himfelf always, " Advocate." I don't know 
why it can be, except it is that our profeffion 
obliges us to keep a little Latin on hand. I 
know that even in New York, fince the Code 
has banifhed forever the (lately tongue, law- 
yers (till like to foberly * air their Roman, for 
we cannot quite forget that it is the mother 

tongue 

* Kean, though not claffically educated, was always 
anxious to create an impreffion to that effect, and, there- 
fore, interlarded his converfation liberally with Latin, 
which was ufually pretty bad. Once, when Phillips, 
his fecretary, was waiting for him at one of his noctur- 
nal orgies, the following converfation occurred : — 

TIME — TWO IN THE MORNING. 

Phillips. Waiter, what was Mr. Kean doing when you 
left the room ? Waiter. 



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tongue of Law ; and fo perhaps this book of 
mine is not altogether unprofeffional. 

Many a time, as I have mufed along in by- 
places, or facked the old homeftead garret on a 
rainy day, I have lighted on a fcrap of rhyme, 
a ftray fentiment or ftill-born fong, in tattered 
newfpaper, or forgotten trac"t, and I have crum- 
pled it in my hand j fluffed it into fome avail- 
able pigeon-hole, along with brief, or notice, or 
order to fhow caufe, perhaps, until in a lazy 
hour it has been patted into my Scrap-books, for 
my eye alone. 

Before me, as I write, there lie piled half-a- 
dozen of thefe awkward volumes.; that, ugly 

and 

Waiter. Playing the piano, fir, and fmging. 

Phillips. O, then he's all right yet. 

QUARTER PAST TWO. 

Phillips. What is Mr. Kean doing now ? 

Waiter. Making a fpeech, fir, about Shakefpeare. 

Phillips. He's getting drunk ; you'd better order the 
carriage. 

HALF-PAST TWO. 

Phillips. What's he at now ? 

Waiter. He's talking Latin, fir. 

Phillips. Then he is drunk. We mull get him_ away. 



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and fhapelefs as they are, money could not buy 
from me, nor the hours I have wafted in their 
random manufacture. They are the farcophagi 
of ten thoufand ftifled fongs ; dead babies of 
genius ; rofes that have fhut to be buds again ; 
notes of birds that died with all their mufic in 
them ; whofe only headftones are thefe filly 
piles of pafte and paper. And here, too, are 
curious little freaks of Latin, French, and Eng- 
lifh, fuch as I have gathered for this book. I 
had long thought to fixing together a few of the 
latter, for thofe who enjoyed them j and when, 
at laft, I fucceeded in poffefling myfelf of a 
copy of Sandy's " Specimens " a book about as 
entirely out of memory as it is of print, I de- 
termined to make it the bafis of fuch a collec- 
tion, and the fubftance of that work will be 
found embodied in the following pages. 

The bulk of my material, however, has been 
gathered at intervals from newfpapers and feri- 
als, from old books like Browning's, — 

" With all the binding all of a blifter, 
And great blue fpots where the ink has run, — 
And reddifh ftreaks that wink and glifter." 

If 



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Preface. 

If anybody finds fault with the claffic tongues 
therein, I have only to remind them that a 
Macaronic poem is one that recognizes no 
law of orthography, etymology, syntax, or 
profody. 

.The preparation of the prefent volume has 
been a pleafant vacation work for me, under 
the trees, when courts were deferted, clerks 
faucy, and their Honors enjoying themfelves at 
Branch, Beach, or Spa ; all courting the kiffes 
of the lazy god, until their vernal roof mould 
fall upon them, and drive them back about 
their work again. I cannot hope that its peru- 
fal will afford anybody quite the entertainment 
its preparation has given me. It has thrown 
me into the belt fociety in the world, — into 
the company of Father Prout and Morgan 
O'Dougherty, with all their crew of jolly dogs. 
Befides, I learned to love the little Macaronic 
in my college days, — 

In the happy days gone by, 
De ipfo dicat, " pars fui," — 

and have never ceafed, even among flerner 
cares, to hail it as a friend. 

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And how much we owe to thofe old days ! 
Thofe long hours of fcheming after ways and 
means to flunk Greek ; thofe exhauftive calcu- 
lations by which — given the Profeffor, the 
binocular parallax of his chair, the mean aver- 
age duration of the lecture, and the length of 
the leffon — we fixed upon the exact ten lines 
we would be called up to read, thus obviating 
the neceffity of ftudying the whole hundred ; 
have they not drilled us for the whole felfifh 
battle of life ? 

And then the old college fongs ! An officer 
once told me that, in that terrible Wildernefs, 
he came upon a little group of grimmed and 
blackened men in a rifle-pit, finging " Lauriger 
Horatius." Near them were lying two wounded 
comrades, waiting for furgeons, who were long 
coming in thofe fad days, when brave men lay 
bleeding in every thicket. And thefe two 
wounded men — one of them, as it proved, paft 
all human furgery — were ftoutly echoing the 
chorus they had fo often fliouted in merry rout 
and college frolic, when, poor fellows, they lit- 
tle dreamed their day — " Euro citius " — was 

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upon them. And I can well fancy, that, like 
as in that group under the Redan, — 
Something upon the foldier's cheek 
Warned off the flains of powder, — 

as thofe brave hearts dwelt on the long ago. 

For juft fuch men I have prepared this book, 
and I hope it will reach them in the fpirit in 
which it is fent. 

J. A. M. 
229 Broadway, New York, 
October 2, 1871. 




INTRODUCTION. 




EFORE mentioning the Macaronic Au- 
thors, it may not be out of character 
to refer to other peculiar and affected 
ftyles of writing, having fome affinity to their 
labors. The claffic writers contain occafional 
inftances of accidental alliteration, as, — 
*Ev iredio) ttettoXioto, noltg nepontiv av&ptoKuv. — Homer. 
| *Ecuoa a\ ug laaciv 'Ehlqvtiv baol. — Euripides, Medea. 
Infans namque pudor prohibebat plura profari. — Horace. 
Libera lingua loquuntur ludis liberalibus. — Ncevius. 

Then there is Cicero's unlucky line, — 

O fortunatam natam me corimie Romam ; 

which, with the fatirift's commentary,* will be 
remembered by the reader of Juvenal, as a 
warning to thofe who are fond of ufing the 
" fi fie omnia." 

But 
* Antoni gladios potuit contemnere, fi fie 
Omnia dixiffet. — Jim. Sat.,x. 123. 
" He might have been able to despife the fwords of 
Antony, if he had kept on talking in this ftyle ; " i. e., if 
his fpeeches had been as tame as his poems. 



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But affected alliteration alone is to the pref- 
ent purpofe, as the line of Ennius, — 

O Tite, tute, Tati, tibi tanta, Tyranne, tulifti : 
Or again, — 

Machina multa minax minitatur maxima muris ; 
And — 

At Tuba terribili tonitru taratantara trufit. 
Thefe following are attributed to Porfon : — 

Cane decane cane, ne tu cane cane decane, 
De cane fed canis cane decane cane. 

The lines on Cardinal Wolfey are old ac- 
quaintances : — 

CACOPHONOUS COUPLET ON CARDINAL WOLSEY. 

Begot by butchers, but by bifhops bred, 
How high his honor holds his haughty head ! 

Mrs. Crawford fays me wrote one line in her 
"Kathleen Mavourneen," on purpofe to con- 
found the cockney warblers, who would fing 

it,— 

The 'orn of the 'unter is 'eard on the 'ill. 

So Moore, — 

A 'eart that is 'umble might 'ope for it 'ere. 
Or: — 

Ha helephant heafily heats hat his heafe 
Hunder humbrageous humbrella trees ! 

Whole poems have been written, wherein 
every word begins with the fame letter. Of 

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thefe, the beft known is the " Pugna Porcorum " 
containing about three hundred lines, every 
word of which begins with the letter P. There 
have been feveral editions ; the original and 
beft, according to De Bure, being that of 1530. 
It is a fatire on the clergy ; and, as is ufual 
with examples of this ftyle, is more to be fought 
for as a literary curiofity, than for any intrinfic 
merit. The edition printed with the " Nugae 
Venales," has a portrait of the fuppofed author, 
with a pig's head and a pilgrim's hat, and alfo 
an engraving of the battle. In the fame col- 
lection, is an amufing poem of about one 
hundred lines, entitled " Canum cum Catis 
Certamen Carmine compofitum Currente Ca- 
lamo C. Catulli Caninii. Au(5tor eft Henricus 
Horderus." Here every word begins with the 
letter C, and there is a burlefque engraving 
accompanying. The poem " De Laude Cal- 
vorum " is perhaps the moft curious literary 
performance in the world. This poem of one 
hundred and forty lines, every word in which 
begins with a C, was compofed in honor of 
Charles the Bald, by Hugbaldi or Hugbald, a 
monk who flourifhed about the year 876. It 
has paffed through many editions, but is feldom 
met with at the prefent day.* 

Still 

* The " De Laude Calvorum," " Pugna Porcorum," 

and 



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Still more rarely met with, is the competition 
of Chriftinus Pierius, a German, " Criftus 
Crucifixus," confirming of nearly one thoufand 
lines. The following will ferve as examples : — 

Currite Caftalides Chrifto comitate Camcenae 
Concelebraturae cunctorum carmine certum 
Confugium collapforum ; concurrite, cantus 
Concinnaturae celebres celebrefque cothurnos. 

There is a poem by Hamconius, of about 
the fame length, called " Certamen Catholico- 
rum cum Calviniftis, continue caraclere C, 
conferiptum per Martinum Hamconium, Fri- 
fium." Lovanii, 1612, 4to. 

By way of variety, a Jew, Ambonet Abraham, 
who lived in the 13th century, compofed an 
oration, wherein every word began with an M. 

Some lines on Charles IX. combine the 
acroftic with the alliterative ; the F in the laft 
line is fuperabundant : — 

Carole, cui clarius cui cultae cunclse camoense 
Afpirant, altis altior aethereis, 
Relligio regni recla ratione regatur, 
Omnibus objicias obfequiofus opem. 
Laurea lex laudes lucentes lata loquatur, 
Vexillum vafrum vis violenta vehat. 
Sufpice Sicelidum folemnia facro fuperftes, 
Florefcat foelix Francia fac faveas. 

Thefe 

and " Canum cum Catis," &c, will be found at the end of 
this Introduction. 



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Thefe on Viole, Bilhop of Bourgogne, afford 
an example of the initial V : — 

Vim vernae violae vifu veneramur vtroque 

Virtutes varias vulgus vti Violi. 

Ventorum violat violas violentia, verum 

Virtutem Violi ventus vbique vehet. 

In the " Nugae Venales " are the following 
lines, where the F is the felected letter : — 
Foemellas furtim fades formofa fefellit 
Fortuito faciens ferventi furta fugore. 
Fur foritas fertur fatuens flagroque feritur. 

The London " Punch " (vol. xlix. p. 141) says 
of the " Fenians": — 

Die, fi Fenius es, qua? foenea, fcedera fiant, 

Foedera, foenifecae foenore, fac, faciant ; 

Factum in fcenili foedus, furcaque, facetum eft ; 

Furciferum a furca, quis revocare velit ? 

Somewhat of the fame character is the epigram 
written with a diamond on a window-pane of 
the hotel Sans Souci, Baden-Baden : — 

Venez ici, fans fouci, vous 
Partirez d'ici fans fix fous.* 

Every 

* A very learned Frenchman in converfation with Dr 
Wallace of Oxford, about the year 1650, after expatiating 
on the copioufnefs of the French language, and its rich- 
nefs in derivations and fynonymes, produced, by way of 
illuftration, the following four lines on rope-making : — 

Quand un cordier, cordant, veult corder un corde ; 

Pour fa corde corder, trois cordons ill accord ; 

Mais, fi un des cordons de la corde decorde 

Le cordon decordand fait decorder la corde. 

To 



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Every ftudent of Virgil remembers the ftory 
of the " fie vos non vobis," four times repeated, 

which 

To fhow that the English language was at leaft equally 
rich and copious, Dr. Wallace immediately tranflated 
the French into as many lines of Englifh, word for word, 
ufing the word twist to express the French corde : — 

When a twifter a twilling, will twift him a twift : 
For the twirling a twift, he three twines doth entwift, 
But if one of the twines of the twift do untwift, 
The twine that untwifteth, untwifteth the twift. 

Here were verbs, nouns, participles, to match the 
French. To mow farther the power and verfatility of 
the Englifh, the Do6lor adds the following lines, which 
continue the fubjedt : — 

Untwifting the twine that untwifted between, 
He twirls with his twifter the two in a twine ; 
Then twice having twilled the twines of the twine 
He twifteth the twine he had twined in twain. 

The French funds had been exhaufted at the outfet. 
Not fo with the Engliih ; for Dr. Wallace, pufhing his 
triumph, added yet four other lines : — 

The twain that in twining before in the twine 
As twins were intwifted, he now doth intwine ; 
'Twixt the twain intertwifting a twine more between, 
He, twirling the twifter makes a twift of the twine. 

Dr. Adam Clarke, to whom we are indebted for the 
record of the preceding, adds, in conclufion, that he 
queftions " whether there is another language in the 
univerfe, capable of fuch a variety of flections, or which 
can afford fo many terms and derivations, all coming 
from the fame radix, without borrowing a Angle term 
from another tongue — or coining one for the fake of 

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which none but the poet could render complete. 
One of his tranflators, Stanyhurft, in the fix- 
teenth century, employs an extraordinary verfi- 
fication, peculiarly his own, and likely always 
to remain fo, which renders his onomatopoetic 
verses fully as unintelligible as the poet's, 
namely : — 

When did he make heaven's vault to rebound 

With rounce robble bobble, 

Of ruffe raffe roaring 

With thicke thwacke thurly bouncing. 

There are fome lines on the Bunker Hill 
Monument celebration, which cleverly illuftrate 
this ftyle : — 

BUNKER HILL. 

Americans arrayed and armed attend ; 

Befide battalions bold, bright beauties blend, 

Chiefs, clergy, citizens, conglomerate, — 

Detefting Defpots, — daring deeds debate ; 

Each eye emblazoned enfigns entertain, — 

Flourifhing from far, fan freedom's flame. 

Guards greeting guards grown gray, — gueft greeting 

gueft. , 

High-minded heroes hither homeward hafte, 
Ingenuous juniors join in jubilee, 
Kith kenning kin, kind knowing kindred key. 
Lo, lengthened lines lend Liberty liege love, 

Mixed 

the found. For there is not a word ufed by Dr. Wallace 
which is not purely Anglo-Saxon — no exotic being 
entertained." — Salad for the Solitary, p. 310. 



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Mixed maffes, mavfhalled, Monumentward move. 
Note noble navies near — no novel notion 
Oft our oppreffors overawed old Ocean; 
Prefumptuous princes priftine patriots paled, 
Queens'' quarrel quelling quotas, quondam quailed. 
Rebellion roufed, revolting ramparts rofe. 
Stout fpirits, uniting fervile foldiers, ftrove. 
Thefe thrilling themes, to thoufands truly told, 
Ufurpers' unjuft ufages unfold. 
Victorious vaffals, vauntings vainly veiled, 
Where, whilefince, Webfter, warlike Warren wailed 
'Xcufe 'xpletives, 'xtra queer 'xpreffed, 
Yielding Yankee yeomen zeft. 

PRINCE CHARLES PROTECTED BY FLORA MACDONALD. 

All ardent acts affright an age abafed 
By brutal broils, by braggart bravery braced. 
Craft's cankered courage changed Culloden's cry ; 
" Deal deep " depofed " deal death " — " decoy," 

" defy : " 
Enough. Ere envy enters England's eyes, 
Fancy's falfe future fades, for Fortune flies. 
Gaunt, gloomy, guarded, grappling giant griefs, 
Here hunted hard, his haraffed heart he heaves ; 
In impious ire inceffant ills invefts, 
Judging Jove's jealous judgments, jaundiced jefls ! 
Kneel kirtled knight ! keep keener kingcraft known, 
Let larger lore life's levelling leffon's loan : 
Marauders muft meet malefactors meeds ; 
No nation noify nonconforming needs. 
O, oracles of old ! our orb ordain 
Peace's poffeffion — Plenty's palmy plain ! 
Quiet Quixotic guefts ; quell quarrelling ; 
Rebuke red riot's refonant rifle ring. 

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Slumber feems ftrangely fweet iince filence fmote 

The threatening thunders throbbing through their throat. 

Ufurper ! under uniform unwont 

Vail valors vagueft venture, vaineft vaunt. 

Well wot we which were wife. War's wildfire won 

Ximenes, Xerxes, Xavier, Xenophon : 

Yet you, ye yearning youth, your young years yield 

Zuinglius' zealot zeft — Zinzendorf Zion-zealed. 

Perhaps the bed Englifh alliterative verfe is 
the following : — 

An Auftrian Army Awfully Arrayed, 

Boldly By Battery Befieged Belgrade ; 

Coffack Commanders Cannonading Come, 

Dealing Deftruclion's Defolating Doom ; 

Every Endeavor Engineers Effay, 

For Fame, For Fortune Fighting — Furious Fray. • 

Generals 'Gainft Generals Grapple ; Gracious God, 

How Honors Heaven Heroic Hardihood ! 

Infuriate, Indifcriminate In 111. 

Kinfmen Kill Kinfmen, Kindred Kinfmen Kill, 

Labor Low Levels Loftieft, Longeft Lines ; — 

Men March 'Mid Mounds, 'Mid Moles, 'Mid Murderous 

Mines, 
Now Noify Noxious Numbers Notice Naught 
Of Outward Obftacles Oppofing Ought ; 
Poor Patriots ! Partly Purchafed, Partly Preffed, 
Quite Quaking, Quickly " Quarter," " Quarter," Queft. 
Reafon Returns, Religious Right Redounds, 
Sorrow Stops Such Sanguinary Sounds. 
Truce To Thee, Turkey, Triumph To Thy Twain, 
Unjuft, Unwife, Unmerciful Ukraine ! 
Vanifh Vain Victory ! Vanifh Victory Vain ! 
Why Wifh We Warfare ? Wherefore Welcome Were 

Xerxes 



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IO 



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Introdu6lion. 



Xerxes, Ximenas, Xanthus, Xavier ? 

Yield, Yield, Ye Youth ; Ye Yeomen Yield Your Yell, 

Zeno's Zarpater's Zoroafter's Zeal, 

Attracting All, Arms Againft Arms Appeal ! 

There is an alliterative poem on the " Depo- 
fition of Richard II.," No. 3 of the Camden 
Society's publications, in the Aftor Library, 
New York. 

In the " Anthologica Graeca," edit. H. Steph, 
i. 58, are poems in praife of Bacchus and Apollo, 
of another ftyle. Each confifts of twenty-four 
lines, each word in the firft line beginning with 
a, in the fecond line with /3, and so on, e. g. : — 

'Els BAKXON. 
Me?i,7ru(j.ev (3aot2,?ja tyVkevvLov, hpa^iurrjv . 
'kftpononTjv, uypoiKOV, aoid/jav, ay"ka6jiop^ov } 
Bolcjtov, (ipbfilov, fiaicxevTepa, fioTpvoxcuTqv, 
Trj$6avvov, yovoevra, ytyavToTLerrjv, yehocovTci, 
Aloyev7J, dlyovov, 6i-&vpa/j.(3oyevrf, diovvoov, &c, &c. 

Lord North, in the reign of James I. wrote a 
fet of fonnets, each beginning with a fucceffive 
letter of the alphabet. A pedantic fpecimen 
appears in the " Bannatyne Ancient Scottifh 
Poems," being one of the flanzas from " Ane 
New Yere Gift, To the Quene, quhen fcho come 
firft hame, 1562," by Alexander Scott : — 
Frefch, fulgent flurift, fragrant flour, formois, 
Lantern to lufe, of ladeis lamp and lot, 
Cherie maift chaift, cheif charbuncle and cbois ; 

Smaill 



Introduction. 



Smaill fweit fmaragde, fmelling but fmit of fmot ; 
Nobleft Natour, nurice to nurtour not, 
This dull indyte, dulce dowble dafy deir, 
Sent by thy fempill fervand Sanderis Scott, 
Greiting grit God, to grant thy Grace guid yere. 

This fort of abfurdity is humoroufly alluded 
to by Kennedy, in his invective addreffed to 
Dunbar, ft. 37 : — 

Delbeir, thy fpeir of weir, but feir thow yeild, 
Hangit, mangit, eddir — ftangit ftryndie ftultorum ; 
To me, maist he Kennedie, and flie the field, 
Pickitt, wickit, ftrickit, convickit, lamp lulladorwn, 
Diffamit, fchamit, blamit primus Paganorum ; 
Out, out, I fchout, open that fnout that fnevellis, 
Tail-teller, rebellar, indwellar with the divellis, 
Spink, fink with ftink ad Tartara Termagorum. 

There are many fuch examples in more un- 
derflandable Englifh. A fong, founded on 
the peculiarity of the Newcaftle burr, appears 
in a provincial colle&ion, 1791 : — 

Rough rolled the roaring river's ftream 
And rapid ran the rain 
When Robin Rutter dreamt a dream 
Which racked his heart with pain, &c, &c. 

Even the learned Aldhelm indulges in fome 
curious fancies. In the preface to his poem, 
" De Laude Virginium," confifting of thirty- 
eight lines, the firft and laft lines contain the 
fame words, but in the laft they are retrograde. 

The 



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12 



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The refpeclive lines begin with the fucceflive 
letters of the firft line, and finifh with thofe of 
the lafl line : thus, the firft and laft lines, and 
the collected initial and final letters of the lines 
confift of the fame words : but in the laft line 
they occur backwards, and the final letters 
must be read upwards. 

The Lh>ogrammatists were writers who ex- 
cluded fome particular letter of the alphabet 
from their compofitions, like fkilful chefs-play- 
ers, giving up a piece to an inferior antagon- 
ift. Says the " Spectator : * * " The firft I ftiall 
produce are the Lipogrammatifts, or letter 
droppers of antiquity, that would take an excep- 
tion, without any reafon, againft fome particular 
letter in the alphabet, fo as not to admit it once 
in a whole poem. One Tryphiodorus f was a 
great mafter in this kind of writing. He com- 
pofed an Odyffey, or Epic Poem, on the adven- 
tures of Ulyffes, confiding of four-and-twenty 
books, having entirely banifhed the letter a from 
his firft book, which was called Alpha (as lucus 
a non lucendo) becaufe there was not an Alpha 
in it. His fecond was called Beta, for the fame 
reafon.t In fhort, the poet excluded the whole 

four 

* No. 59. t The Greek poet and grammarian. 

\ Id eft, for difimilar reafon, the ,3 being utterly ex- 
cluded. 



Introduction. 



13 



four-and-twenty letters in their turns, and mowed 
them that he could do his bufinefs without them. 
It muft have been very pleafant to have feen 
this poet avoiding the reprobate letter, as 
much as another would a falfe quantity, and 
making his efcape from it, through the different 
Greek dialects, when he was prefented with it 
in any particular fyllable ; for the moft apt and 
elegant word in the whole language was re- 
jected, like a diamond with a flaw in it, if it 
appeared blemifhed with the wrong letter. 

And elfewhere in the " Spectator," * Tryphiod- 
orus, in the " Vifion of the Region of Falfe Wit," 
is, as a lively phantom, represented as being pur- 
fued through fpace by the Ihades of the four-and- 
twenty letters, who are powerlefs to overtake him. 

Difraeli, in his " Curiofities of Literature," 
mentions an ode of Pindar, from which the letter 
a is carefully excluded ; fo alfo, Peter de Riga, 
canon of Rheims, wrote a fummary of the Bible, 
and in each of its twenty-three fections omitted, 
fucceffively, fome particular letter. 

Gordianus Fulgentius fays that his work, 
" De ^Etatibus Mundi et Hominis " is a won- 
derful production, becaufe, from the chapter on 
Adam he has excluded the A, from that on 
Abel the B, and from that on Cain the C, etc., 
&c, through twenty-three chapters. 

Gregorio 
* No. 63. 



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14 



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Introduttion. 



Gregorio Leti prefented a difcourfe e'ntitled 
"The Exiled R," to the Academy of the Hu- 
morifts at Rome, wherefrom the letter R was ex- 
cluded, and a friend having requefted a copy 
thereof as a curiofity, he replied by a copious 
anfwer of feven pages written in the fame man- 
ner. An anecdote, given by Difraeli, after ftat- 
ing that the Orientals have this literary folly, 
may illuftrate the Lipogrammatifts. " A Per- 
fian poet read to the celebrated Jami a gazel 
of his own compofition, which Jami did not 
like : but the writer remarked that it was, not- 
withflanding, a curious fonnet, for the letter 
aliff was not to be found in any one of the 
words ! Jami farcaflically replied, " You can 
do a better thing yet, — take away all the letters 
from every word you have written." 

Du Chat, in his " Ducatiani," mentions five 
novels of Lopes de Vega, the firft of which 
omits the A, the fecond the E, the third the I, 
the fourth the O, and the fifth the U. 

The three poems — " Pugna Porcorum," 
" Canum cum Cattis Certamen," and " De 
Laude Calvorum " — which are prefented in 
the prefent volume, illuftrate a different phafe 
of this Cadmean madnefs* Lord North, a 
courtier of the times of James L, wrote fonnets, 

and 

* Pojl, p. — 



Introduction. 



and Earl Rivers, in the reign of Edward IV., 
tranflated the Moral Proverbs of Chriftina of 
Pifa, in a fimilar ftyle. 

The Pangrammatists (writers who contrive 
to crowd all the letters of the alphabet into 
each of their verfes,) claim the mod ancient and 
venerable authority for their craft. The Prophet 
Ezra, they fay, was the firft Pangrammatift, and 
inftance the following as their proof : — 

" And I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree 
to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that 
whatfoever Ezra the prieft, the fcribe of the law of the God 
of heaven, ihall require of you, it be done fpeedily." * 

The whole alphabet, with the E alone excepted, 
is contained in the following, written with eafe 
without E's. 

A jovial fwain may rack his brain, 

And tax his fancy's might, 

To quiz in vain, for 'tis moft plain, 

That what I fay is right. 

Each verfe of the following, alfo. is both lipo- 
grammatic and pangrammatic ; containing every 
letter of the alphabet, except E. 

THE FATE OF NASSAN. 

Bold Naffan quits his caravan, 
A hazy mountain grot to fcan ; 
Climbs jaggy rocks to fpy his way, 
Doth tax his fight, but far doth ftray. 

Not 
* Ezra vii. 21. 



15 



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Introduction. 



Not work of man, nor fport of child, 
Finds Naffan in that mazy wild ; 
Lax grow his joints, limbs toil in vain — 
Poor wight ! why didft thou quit that plain ? 

Vainly for fuccor Naffan calls, 
Know, Zillah, that thy Naffan falls ; 
But prowling wolf and fox may joy, 
To quarry on thy Arab boy. 

Lord Holland, in 1824, on reading the five 
Spanifh novels of De Vega, before alluded to, 
wrote the following, in which all the vowels, 
except E, are omitted. 

eve's legend. 

Men were never perfect ; yet thee three brethren 
Veres were ever efteemed, refpected, revered, even 
when the reft, whether the felect few, whether the mere 
herd, were left neglected. 

The eldeft's veffels feek the deep, ftem the element, 
get pence ; the keen Peter when free, wedded Hefter 
Green, — the flender, ftern, fevere, erect Hefter Green. 
The next, clever Ned, lefs dependent, wedded fweet 
Ellen Heber. Stephen, ere he met the gentle Eve, 
never felt tendernefs : he kept kennels, bred fteeds 
refted where the deer fed, went where green trees, where 
frefh breezes greeted fleep. There he met the meek, the 
gentle Eve ; fhe tended her fheep, fhe ever neglected 
felf ; fhe never heeded pelf, yet fhe heeded the fhepherds j 
even lefs. Neverthelefs, her cheek reddened when fhe 
met Stephen ; yet decent referve, meek refpect, tempered 
her fpeech, even when fhe fhewed tendernefs. Stephen 
felt the fweet effect : he felt he erred when he fled the 

fex 



Introdnttion. 



fex, yet felt he defencelefs when Eve feemed tender. She, 
he reflects, never deferved neglecl: ; fhe never vented 
fpleen ; he efteems her gentlenefs, her endlefs deferts j 
he reverences her fteps; he greets her : — 

" Tell me whence thefe meek, thefe gentle fheep, — 
whence the yet meeker, the gentle fhepherdefs ? " 

" Well bred, we were eke better fed, ere we went where 
recklefs men feek fleeces. There we were fleeced. Need 
then rendered me fhepherdefs, need renders me femp- 
ftrefs. See me tend the fheep, fee me few the wretched 
fhreds. Eve's need preferves the fteers, preferves the 
fheep; Eve's needle mends her dreffes, hems her meets; 
Eve feeds the geefe; Eve preferves the cheefe." 

Her fpeech melted Stephen, yet he neverthelefs ef- 
teems, reveres her. He bent the knee where her feet 
preffed the green ; he bleffed, he begged, he preffed 
her. 

" Sweet, fweet Eve, let me wed thee ; be led where 
Hefter Green,, where Ellen Heber, where the bretheren 
Vere dwell. Free cheer greets thee there ; Ellen's glees 
fweeten the refrefhments ; there feverer Hefter's decent 
referve checks heedlefs jefts. Be led there, fweet Eve." 

" Never ! we well remember the Seer. We went where 
he dwells — we entered the cell — we begged the de- 
cree, — , 

" ' Where, whenever, when, t'were well 
Eve be wedded ? Eld Seer, tell ! ' 

"He rendered the decree; fee here the fentence de- 
creed ! " Then fhe prefented Stephen the Seer's decree. 
The verfes were thefe : — 

" ' Ere the green be red. 
Sweet Eve, be never wed; 
Ere be green the red cheek, 
Never wed thee, Eve meek? 
2 The 



17 



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Introduction. 



The terms perplexed Stephen, yet he jeered them. He 
refented the fenfelefs credence, " Seers never err." Then 
he repented, knelt, wheedled, wept. Eve fees Stephen 
kneel, fhe relents, yet frets when fhe remembers the 
Seer's decreee. Her drefs redeems her. Thefe were the 
events : — 

Her well kempt treffes fell : ledges, reeds beckoned 
them. The reeds fell, the edges met her cheeks ; her 
cheeks bled. She preffes the green fedge where her 
cheek bleeds. Red then bedewed the green reed, the 
green reed then fpeckled her red cheek. The red cheek 
feems green, the green reed feems red. Thefe were the 
terms the Eld feer decreed Stephen Vere- 

HERE ENDETH THE LEGEND. 

There is in exiftence a curioufly complicated 
acroftic crofs by Rabanus, containing thirty-five 
lines, each of thirty-five letters, reading alike 
up and down, and in various diagonals. 

Ben Jonfon fpeaks of " A Pair of fciffors and 
a comb in verfe," and the " Spectator " ridicules 
the fantaftically lhaped poems, axes, eggs, altars, 
&c, of which a Greek poet, Theodoric, is faid 
to have been the inventor. Naih, in his invec- 
tive againft Gabriel Harvey, fays, "he has writ 
verfes in all kinds : in form of a pair of gloves, 
a pair of fpectacles, a pair of pothooks," &c* 

The 

* " We read of one much renowned in his day for the 
fabrication of thefe curious literary wares, yclept Ben- 
lowes, ftyled by his Cambridge contemporaries ' the ex- 
cellently 



Introduction. 



The Acrostic is a poetical compofition, 
wherein the firft letters of each line fpell, in 
their order, a word that is to be fought in the 
whole. 

The late Edgar A. Poe compofed a curious 
one, to be found in his publifhed works, com- 
pofed of as many lines as there are letters in 
the name of the lady it addreffes ; the firft let- 
ter of the firft line being the firft letter of her 
name, the fecond letter of the fecond line the 

fecond 
cellently learned.' Of this eccentric knight of the quill, 
Butler has fome rather cauftic criticifms. He fays : — 

" ' There is no feat of activity, nor gambols of wit that 
ever was performed by man, from him that vaults on 
Pegafus, to him that tumbles through the hoop of an 
anagram, but Benlowes has got the maftery of it, whether 
it be high-rope wit or low-rope wit. He has all forts of 
echoes, rebuffes, chronograms, &c. As for altars and 
pyramids in poetry, he has outdone all men that way ; 
for he has made a gridiron and a frying-pan in verfe, 
that, befides the likenefs in fhape, the very tone and 
found of the words did perfectly reprefent the noife made 
by thefe utenfils ! When he was a captain he made all 
the furniture of his horfe, from the bit to the crupper, 
the beaten poetry, every verfe being fitted to the propor- 
tion of the thing, with a moral allufion to the fenfe of the 
thing : as the bridle of moderation, they addle of content, and 
the crupper of confiancy ; fo that the fame thing was to the 
epigram and emblem, even as a mule is both horfe and afs.' 

" Specimens of this fpecies of emblematic poetry of the 
feventeenth century may be familiar to many ; yet we 

venture 



19 



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20 



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Introduction. 



fecond letter of her name, the third of the third 
the third, and fo on, through the chapter.* 

The 

venture to fubjoin a modern imitation in our own ver- 
nacular, which, we prefume, will pleafe not only the gen- 
eral reader, but all patrons of pure water : — 

THE WINE-GLASS. 
Who hath woe ? Who hath forrow ? 
Who hath contentions ? Who 
hath wounds without caufe ? 
Who hath rednefs of eyes ? 
They that tarry long at the 
wine ! They that go to 
feek mixed wine ! Look 
not thou upon the 
wine when it is red 
when it giveth its 
colour in the 
cup; 
when it 
moveth itfelf 
aright. 
At 
the kn- 
it biteth like a 
ferpent, and ftingeth like an adder.' " 
Saunder's, " Salad for the Solitary." New York: Lam- 
port, Blakeman 6° Co., 1853. 



* See the two pamphlets, "Double Acroftics " and 
" Sunday Acroftics." London, Frederic Warne & Co. 
The feven mufical figns, — ut, re, mi,fa,fo, la, fa, — in- 
vented 






Intro duttion. 



The following is an ingenious fpecimen of the 
Acroftic and Teleftic combined : — 

Unite and untie are the fame — fo fay — U 
Not in wedlock I ween, has the unity beeN 
In the drama of marriage, each wandering gouT 
To a new face would fly, all except you and I 
Each feeking to alter the /pell in their fcenE. 

The 



& 



tfve 



faireft 



4»w, 



O 
o 
P* 



Thefe charms to win, with all my empire I would gladly part. 



vented by the Benedi6line friar Guido Aretina, are the 
firft fyllables of the firft ftanza of a Latin hymn to S. 
John Baptift. 

Ut queant laxis 

i?*fonare fibris, 

Mina geftorum 

-Famuli tuorum. 

Solve polluti 

Lobii reatum 

v9rtn<5li Ioliannes. 



21 



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22 



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Introduction. 



The next is at once an Acrostic, a Mesostic, 
and a Telestic. 

Inter cuncta micans Igniti fidera ccel-I 
Expellit tenebras E toto Phoebus ut orbE ; 
Sic caecas removet JeSus caliginis umbraS, 
Vivicansque fimul Vero praecordia motV, 
Solem juftitiae Sefe probat effe beatiS- 

DE NOMINE JESU. 

In rebus tantis trina conjunctio mundl 
Erigit humanum fenfum, laudare venustS 
Sola falus nobis, et mundi fumma poteftaS 
Venit peccati nodum diflblvere fructV 
Summa falus cunclas nituit per fecula terraS- 

Among the emblems carved by the early 
Chriftians, and found to-day in the catacombs 
of Rome, the moft frequently occurring is a rude 
outline of a fifh. Extreme caution was neceffary 
to elude the vigilance of their Pagan perfecu- 
tors, even in the expreffion of their faith, and 
the Chriftians used this fymbol as an acroflic 
or monogram of the name of Chrifl. at once 
expreffed and difguifed by means of a logo- 
griph. Its probable ufe upon the walls of the 
catacombs, was to mark the refting place of a 
Chriftian to the initiated, without conveying 
any meaning to the enemy. Its explanation is 
as follows : — 

The Greek word fifh is "IXGTS" and the letters 
compofing it are the initials of the name " Jems Chrifl:, 

the 



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To hear me wretch, oh, 
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bow down thy bleffed ears 

let thine eyes, which fleep 

behold a finner weep. 

my God ! my faults, though great 

een thy mercy-feat 

rown, fince we are taught, 

ne, If thou beeft 1 fought 



any o 


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rift inherit : 
pes my blifs 
in his, 
viour, God 1 
engeful rod ; 
are set, 
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I know ; 
hould I go ? 
thine to me ; 
th muft be. 
aith implore, 
r more, 
nd keep, 
e'er flip ; 
then, 
say, Amen ! 



The above ingenious prayer is by an unknown author. The middle crofs reprefents 
Our Saviour's. On either fide are the croffes of the two thieves. In the middle crofs 
is infcribed the laft words of our Saviour, and on each of the others, the dying words 
of one of the . thieves. Without reference to the croffes, the letters in the diagram 
compofe a poem of as many lines as there are letters in the alphabet. The whole 
is very old. — Gleanings for the Curious. 



Introduction. 



the Son of God, the Saviour," in Greek, 'hjoovg Xplnrdg 
Qeov "Yibc Storr/p. 

Mdlle. Rachel was the recipient of the mod 
delicate compliment the acrostic has ever been 
employed to convey. A diadem fet with fix 
precious ftones was prefented to her, fo ar- 
ranged that the initial of the name of each ftone 
was alfo the initial of one of her principal roles, 
and in their order formed her name, thus : — 

R uby, R oxana, 

A methyst, A menaide, 

C ornelian, C amille, 

H ematite, H ermione, 

E merald, E milie, 

L apis Lazuli L aodice. 

In No. 60 of the " Spectator," Addifon fays 
of the Chronogram : " This kind of wit appears 
very often on modern medals, efpecially thofe 
of Germany, when they reprefent, in the infcrip- 
tion, the year in which they were coined. Thus, 
we fee on a medal of Guftavus Adolphus, the 
following words : — 

ChrIstVs DuX ergo trIVMphVs." 

If you take the pains to pick the figures out 
of the feveral words, and range them in their 
proper order, you will find they amount to 
MDCXVVVII, or 1627, the year in which the 
medal was ftamped ; for, as fome of the letters 
diftinguifh themfelves from the reft, and over- 
top 



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top their fellows, they are to be confidered in a 
double capacity, both as letters and as figures. 
Your laborious German wits will turn over a 
whole dictionary for one of thefe ingenious de- 
vices. A man would think they were fearching 
after an apt claffical term ; but, inftead, they are 
looking out a word that has an M, an L, or a D in 
it. When, therefore, we meet with any of thefe 
infcriptions, we are not fo much to look in them 
for the thought, as for the year of the Lord." 

There is a work extant, " Chronographica 
Gratulatio in Feliciffimum adventum Sereniffimi 
Cardinalis Ferdinandi, Hifpaniarum Infantis, a 
Collegio Soc. Jefu." The book contains one 
hundred hexameters, each of which is a chrono- 
gram reducible to the date 1634, like the two 
following : — 

AngeLe CaeLIVogI MIChaeL LUX UnICa CaetUs. 
Verf ICULIs InCLUfa, fLUentln faeCULa CentUM. 

In the quaint volume by Howell, " The Ger- 
man Diet," after his account of the death of 
Charles, fon of Phillip II. of Spain, the author 
fays, — 

Should you defire the year, this chronogram will tell 
you of it. 
fILIVs ante DIeM patrIos InqVIrIt In annos. 
1568. 

Queen Elizabeth's death is infcribed as fol- 
lows : — 

Mv 



Introduction. 



My Day Is Clofed In Immortality. 1603. 
Here follows a chronogram on Martin Lu- 
ther, containing the date of his death, 1546 : — 

ECCE nVnc MorltVs IVftVs In paCe ChrlftI exItV 
et beato. 

On the title-page of " Hugo Grotius his 
Sophompaneas," edited 1652, that date is com- 
pofed in the name of the editor, — 
FranCIs GoLDfMIth. 
On the election of Pope Leo X. in 1440, the 
following pafquinade appeared : — 
Multi Cceci Cardinales Creaverunt Coecum Decimum 
Leonem. 

If we take the word decimum to be expref- 
live of X, we mail have the chronogram : — 
"MCCCCXL" or 1440. 

Anagrams are curious, and often exceed- 
ingly clever, examples of formal literary trifling. 
Camden, their high prieft and expounder, in 
his " Remains," has bequeathed to the world 
a treatife on Anagrams, which, in his day, were 
endowed with a mofl undue and fuperftitious 
importance, being regarded as nothing elfe 
than the occult and myfterious finger of fate, 
revealed in the names of men. 

" The only quintefTence " fays this learned 
writer, " that hitherto the alchemy of wit could 
draw out of names, is anagrammatifme, or meta- 

grammatifme. 



25 



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26 



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grammatifme, which is the diffolution of a 
name, truly written, into the letters as its ele- 
ments, and a new connection of it by artificial 
tranfpofition, without addition, fubtraclion, or 
change of any letter, into different words, mak- 
ing fome perfect fenfe applicable to the perfon 
named." The precife in this practice, adhere 
ftrictly to the rules here laid down, with the ex- 
ception only, of omitting or retaining the letter 
H, according to their convenience, alleging that 
the H cannot challenge the right of a letter. But 
the licentiates, on the other hand, think it no in- 
jury fometimes, to ufe E for JE \ V for W ; S for 
Z ; C for K, and con trari wife. The fame author 
calls the difficilis que pukhra, the charming 
difficulty of making an anagram, " a whetftone 
of patience to them that mail practife it \ for 
fome have been feen to bite their pen, fcratch 
their head, bend their brows, bite their lips, 
beat the board, tear their paper, when the 
names were fair for fomewhat, and caught 
nothing therein, — yet, notwithstanding the 
four fort of critics, good anagrams yield a de- 
lightful comfort and pleafant motion to honeft 
minds." We remember a ftory told in the 
" Spectator," of a lover of Mifs Mary Boon, 
who, contriving, after fix months ftudy, to ana- 
grammatize her as Moll Boon, upon being indig- 
nantly 



Introduction. 



nantly informed by the lady, that her name was 
Mary Bohun, went mad. 

The anagram is of great antiquity.* Cam- 
den, indeed, places its origin as far back as the 
time of Mofes, and conjectures that it might 
have had fome fhare in the myftical traditions, 
afterward called "Cabala," communicated by 
that divine lawgiver to the chofen feventy. 

Another writer on this fubject obferves, that 
the Cabalifts among the Jews, were profeffed 
anagrammatifts ; the third part of their art, 
which they called themuru, that is, " changing,'" 
being nothing more or lefs than the art of form- 
ing anagrams, i. e. of rinding the (as they al- 
leged) hidden and myftical meaning in names ; 
which they did by tranfpofing and fantaftically 
combining the letters of thofe names. Thus 
of the letters of Noah's name in Hebrew, they 
made Grace, and of the Meffiah's, He Jhall re- 
joice. 

But whether the above origin be theoretical 
or certain, the anagram may be diftinctly traced 
to the age of Lycophron, a Greek writer who 

flourimed 

* Many of Shakefpeare's names feem to fuggeft ana- 
grams. Thus Caliban, is evident metathefis for canibal 
or cannibal ; Charmian for chairman ; Falftafif, for fall 
fajl ( " alacrity in falling " — as he puts it himfelf) ; 
Launce for uncle, &c, &c. — Ed. 



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28 



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Introduction. 



flourifhed about 300 b. c. In his poem of 
" Caffandra," the theme of which, like that of 
the generality of the poems of that period, was 
the Trojan War, he has recorded two of his 
anagrams. 

One is in the name of Ptolemy Philadelphus, 
in whofe reign he lived : — 

IITOAEMAI2. "Atto y.EktGTog y made of honey. 
The other is on Ptolemy's wife, Arfinoe : — 
'AP2TN0H. 'Epao tov, Juno's violet 

Euftachius fays this practice of anagramma- 
tifm was common among the Greeks of his pe- 
riod. He cites many examples like the follow- 
ing : — 

"Apery (virtue), 'Epar^ (lovely), &c, &c. 

Among the moderns, the French have moft 
cultivated the Anagram. Says Camden, " They 
exceedingly admire the Anagram, for the deep 
and far-fetched antiquity and myftical meaning 
thereof. In the reign of Francis the Firft 
(when learning began to revive), they began 
to diftil their wits therein ; " and among their 
efforts was the following, on the name of that 
monarch : — 

Francois de Valois — De facon fuis royal. 
Le Laboureur, the hiftorian of Charles VI., and 

author 



Introduction. 



author of the " Genealogies of Noble Families," 
gives an anagram on the Miftrefs of Charles 
IX., which he calls " hiftorically juft." Her 
name was Marie Touchet, of which the ana- 
gram was Je charme tout. One equally happy 
was made on the name of the affaffin of Henry 
III. of France : — 

Frere Jacques Clement. C'eft l'enfer qui m'a cree. 

When M. de Boucherat was chancellor of 
France, his name, Louis de Boucherat, was 
found convertible into Eft la bouche du roi. 

The following Latin anagram is on the name 
of the unhappy Marie Stuart : — 

Maria Stevarda Scotorum Regina, 
Trufavi regnis morte amara cado. 

It is to a Frenchman, also, according to Cam- 
den, that the following remarkable tranfpofition 
of the letters of our Saviour's name is to be 
afcribed : — 

"Itjoovs — Zvvoig , Thou art thatjheep. 

Allufion being made to the paffage in Ifaiah, 
chap. liii. 7, where it is prophetically faid, — 
" He is brought as a lamb to the flaughter, and 
as a Iheep before her fhearers is dumb, fo he 
opened not his mouth." 

There is another very extraordinary anagram 
in reference to our Saviour; and referring to the 

identical 



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30 



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identical period in his life, to which the paffage 
in Ifaiah pointed. Pilate's queftion, " Quid eft 
Veritas ? " forms the admirable anagram, Eft vir 
qui adeft, " It is the man before you /" 

Calvin, in the title-page of his " Inftitutes," 
printed at Strafbourg in 1539, calls himfelf Al- 
euinas, which is the anagram of Calvinus, and 
the name of a perfon of eminent learning in the 
time of Charlemagne, who contributed greatly 
to the Reftoration in that age. Calvin, who cher- 
ifhed a ftrong animofity toward Rabelais, con- 
verted his name, Rabelcefeus, into rabie Icefius ; 
while the wit, in revenge, found jan cul in Cal- 
vin. 

The Italians feem to have been partial to 
the Anagram. Says Camden, " The Bilhop of 
Graffa, a profeffor therein, fo teftifieth, but I 
know not a fingle inftance of their (kill." " In 
England," he adds, " I know fome, who forty 
years fince, have beftowed fome idle hours 
therein with good fuccefs ; albeit our Englilh 
names, running rough with cragged confonants, 
are not fo smooth and eafy for tranfpofition, as 
the French and Italian." 

Accordingly, he furnifhes but a fingle in- 
ftance, viz. : — 

Charles James Stuart — Claims Arthur's feat. 

" And this," fays the author gravely, " fhows 

his 



Introduction. 



his undoubted rightful claim to the monarchy 
of Britain, as fucceffor to the valorous King 
Arthur ! " This latter was the production of 
Dr. Walter Gwyn, who, as it appears from a 
note to one of Owen's epigrams, publifhed a 
collection of thefe jeux d'efprit. It further 
appears from Owen's note, that the anagram 
was written previous to the actual occurrence of 
the event it feemed to indicate. In that case, 
it is not only applicable to its original, as re- 
quired by Camden's definition, but prophetical 
as well. 

Camden fupplies a long lift of tranfpofitions, 
" of the names of divers great perfonages, in 
raoft of which the fenfe may feem applyable to 
thier good parts." Thefe three (the firft of 
which is by Camden himfelf) have Queen Elif- 
abeth for their theme : — 

Elifabetha Regina = Angliae hera beafti. 

Elifabetha Regina = Angliae eris beata. 

Elifabetha Regina Angliae = Anglis agna et Hiberiae lea. 

So Gray, in his " Bard," fays of Elifabeth : — 

Her lion port, her awe commanding face. 

Out of the words, " Elifabetha Regina Anglo- 
rum," the two following were made, both of 
which are remarkably appofite : — 

Magna bella tu heroina geris, 
Gloria regni falva manebit. 

Lord 



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32 



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Introduction. 



Lord Chancellor Ellefmere's name, Thomas 
Egerton, was tranfpofed into Ge/iat Honorem ; 
to which Camden fubjoins the following coup 
let: — 

Oris honore viget et mentis ge/iat honorem 
Juris Egertonus, dignus honore colli. 

In a volume of Sir Julius Caefar's collections, ! 
in the Lanfdowne MSS. there is a collection 
of anagrams, on the names of the King, the ] 
Marquis of Buckingham, Hamilton, Lady; 
Compton, and Mr. Chriftopher Villiers, which j 
Sir Julius has very emphatically marked j 
"tram." Great liberty is taken with the 
names, and fome of them are very inappofite. 
The following are the beft two : — 

Jacobus Steuartus = Tu es ob jufta carus. 
George Earle Buckinghame = Oh ! grave able king, 
grace me. 

Sir Symonds d'Ewes, in his account of Carr, 
Earl of Somerfet, and his wife, notices an ana- 
gram, " not unworthy to be owned by the rar- 
eft wits of the age : " — 

Thomas Overbury : — O ! O ! bafe murthyr ! 

Kippis was very fevere on Sir Symonds for 
praifing fuch anagrams : but at that time, it 
muft be remembered, they were the ruling paf- 

fion 



Introduction. 



fion of the day, the amufement of the learned 
and wife, who ftrove — 

" To purchafe fame 
In keen iambics, and mild anagram. 

Sylvefter, the tranflator of Du Bartas, made 
this anagram : — 

James Stuart A Juft Mailer. 

One " Miftris Mary Fage," who flourifhed in 
the time of Charles I., was the moft prolific of 
Engliih anagrammatifts. She publifhed a whole 
book of anagrams and acroftics, under the 
title of " Fame's Rowle," in which the names 
of the king and queen, all the dukes, mar- 
quiffes, earls, vifcounts, birnops, barons, privy- 
counfellors, knights of the garter, and judges 
of the three kingdoms, to the number of four 
hundred and twenty, are anagrammatized, and 
each anagram illuftrated by an equally curious 
acroftic The one following may ferve as a 
fpecimen of her flyle : — 

To the Right Hon. John, Earl of Weymes. 

John Weymes. Anagramma. — Show men joy. 
In your great honor, free from all alloy, 
O truly noble Weymes, you fhew men joy ; 
Having your vertues in thier clearer fight, 
Nothing there is can breed them more delight. 

With 



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34 



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Introduction. 



With joy your wifdome fo doth men content; 
Ever we pray it might be permanent ; 
Your virtuous life doth breed fo great delight, 
Men wifh you endlefs joy, you to requite. 
Eternall joy may unto you fucceed, 
Showing men joy who do your comfort breed. 

An anagram on Monk, afterwards Duke of 

Albemarle, on the reftoration of Charles II., 

I 
forms alfo a chronogram, including the date of; 

the, event it records : — 

Georgius Monke, Dux de Aumarle — 
Ego Regem reduxi, Anno Sa MDCLVV. 

This defcription of wit, together with the; 
forming of " rebuffes " and " illufions," was in ] 
higheft repute during the reigns of Elizabeth,' 
James, and Charles I., doubtlefs borrowed from | 
the Italians or the French, who were always i 
proficients in the manufacture of thefe quaint j 
conceits. Thomas Billon, a Provencal, was fo 
confpicuous for his* -talents in this line, that he j 
was retained by Louis XIII. with a penfion of | 
twelve hundred livres, as Anagrammatift to the 
king ; and in the reign of Louis XIV., one 
Daurat had acquired fo much celebrity, that the 
molt illuftrious perfons of the court gave him 
their names to anagrammatize. 

Many of the epigrams of Owen, the cele- 
brated Welfh epigrammatift, whofe performances 

are 



Introduction. 



are deemed fecond only to thofe of Martial, 
partake of the character of the anagram. 
Anagramma. — Galenus — Angelus. 
Angelas es bonus anne malus ; Galene ! falutis 
Humanae cuflos, angelus ergo bonus. — Lib. 2, ep. 49 
De Fide. — Anagramma Quincuplex. 
Recla fides, certa eft, arcet mala fchifmata, non eft, 
Sicut Crete, fides fictilis, arte caret. — lb. ep. 13. 
Brevitas. — Anagramma Triplex. 
Perfpicua brevitate nihil magis afficit aures ; 
In verbis, tibi res poftulat, efto brevis. — Lib. 3, ep. 31. 

In •'• A New Help to Difcourfe," i2mo, Lon- 
don, 1684, we have an Englilh anagram, with a 
very quaint epigrammatic expofition : — 

Toast — A Sott. 
A toaft is like a fot ; or what is moft 
Comparative, a fot is like a toaft ; 
For when their fubftances in liquor fink, 
Both properly are faid to be in drink. 

It is, however, on proper names that ana- 
grams have chiefly been made ; for their merit 
lies in the characteriftic fuppofed to be expreffecL 
A flight reverfing of the letters in a name may 
pay its owner a compliment ; as in Vernon was 
found Renoun ; in Sir Thomas Wiat, a wit. 

Of the poet Waller, the anagrammatiffc faid : 

His brows need not with laurel to be bound, 
Since in his name with laurel he is crowned. 

Randle Holmes, the author of " A Treatife 

on 



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on Heraldry," was complimented by an expre'f- 
five anagram : — 

Randle Holmes — Lo ! Men's Herald. 

The word Loraine forms Alerion, on which 
account that family took alerions for their coat 
of arms. 

" Anagrams," fays DTfraeli, " were often de- 
voted to the perfonal attachments of love or 
friendfhip, — a friend delighted to twine his 
name with that of his friend." Craihawe,, the 
poet, had a literary intimate of the name of 
Car, who was his poflhumous editor ; and in 
prefixing fome elegiac lines, difcovers that his 
beft friend Craftiawe was Car ; for fo the ana- 
gram of CraJJiawe runs — He was Car! On 
this quaint difcovery, he indulged in all the 
tendernefs of his recollections : — 

" ' Was Car then Craihawe, or was Craihawe Car ? 
Since both within one name combined are. 
Yes Car's Craihawe, he's Car ; 'tis love alone 
Which melts two hearts, of both compofmg one/ " &c. 

Lady Eleanor Davies, wife of the poet Sir 
John Davies, was the Caffandra of her day ; 
and as her prophecies, in the troubled times of 
Charles II., were ufually againft the govern- 
ment, fhe was at one time brought into the 
High Court of CommhTion. She was not a lit- 
tle mad, and fancied the fpirit of Daniel was 

in 



Introduction. 



in her, from an anagram me had formed of her 
name : — 

. Eleanor Davies — Reveal, O Daniel ! 

This anagram had too much by an 1, and too 
little by an s, but fuch trifles as thefe were 
no check to her afpirations. The court at- 
tempted to expel the fpirit from the lady ; and 
the bifhops argued the point with her out of 
Holy Writ ; but to no purpofe. She returned 
text for text, until one of the deans of the 
arches, says Heylin, "mot her through and 
through with an arrow borrowed from her own 
quiver." Taking up a pen, he wrote : — 

Dame Eleanor Davies — Never fo mad a ladie ! 

This happy fancy fet the folemn court to 
laughing, and drove Caffandra to the utmoft 
dejection of fpirits. Foiled by her own weapon ; 
her energy forfook her ; and, either (he never 
afterward ventured to enrol herfelf among the 
order, or the anagram difarmed her utterances, 
— for we hear no more of her among the proph- 
ets. 

If we take from the words La Revolutio?i 
Francaife, the word Veto, known as the firft 
prerogative of Louis XIV., the remaining let- 
ters will form the words, " U?i Corfe la Jinim" 
A Corfican JJiall end it — which was regarded as 
an extraordinary coincidence, if nothing more. 

Numberlefs 



37 



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38 



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Introduction. 



Numberlefs anagrams were made upon the 
name of Napoleon, by fuperftitious perfons, and 
every variety of prophecy deduced therefrom : 
e.g.: — 

Napoleon Bonaparte = i No > a PP ear not at Elba> 
I Bona rapta, leno, pone. 

" Lucius Napoleon Bonaparte, Imperator," 
tranfpofed, becomes, " O ! fubaltero Nerone 
anna capiunt populi." " Louis Napoleon Bo- 
naparte " becomes, " Aroufe, Albion, an open 
plot." Whole books of latter-day prophecies 
have been founded on the fimilarity of the 
names of Napoleon, and Apollyon, or Apolleon, 
the dark angel ; and one French Republican, 
by writing and analyzing, has produced the fol- 
lowing : — 

Napoleon. 

Apoleon. 

Poleon. 

Oleon. 

Leon. 

Eon. 

On. 

Which, being arranged in the form of a fentence, 
gives, " Napoleon o?i o leon leon eon apoleon po- 
leon " — which is the Greek for " Napoleon, being 
the lion of the people, %vas marching on,deftroying 
the cities ! " And hundreds of curious calcula- 
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Introduction. 



tions in numbtrs, have been drawn from the 
fame all-potent name* 

The 

* " A French lawyer reflding at the town of Mende, 
while fearching in the library of La Ferte Saint Aubin, 
difcovered an old book, entitled Quejiions cTAvenir, 
by Galaos, a monk of the Abbey of Saint Benoit-fur- 
Loire. From this book are taken the following figures, 
which conftitute a numerical prediction : — 

I2-I5-22-0/I9— I4*i-i6 , i5 , i2'5-i5'i4 — 
2-2i-i5-i4-i , i6-i , i8 2o-5-i8-5- i6-i8-5*i9'5'i4-2o-i- 14-20- 
4-21— i6-5-2i-i6-i2-5— 4-5— 4-9-23— 
4*5'i6- 1 ■ 18-20-5- 13-5- 14-20-19 — 19-5-18-1 — 
i6-i8-5'i9-9-4-5- 14*20 — 4-5— 18-5- i6-2i-2-i2-9-i 7-21-5 — 
6-i8* 1-14-3- 1 9- 19-5 — 9'i4-4-9-22-9-i9-9-2-i2-5 — 16T18 — 
12-5 — 19-21-6-6 *i8- 1-7-5 — 2i , i4 , 9 , 22-5-i8 , i9 , 5'i2 — 
22-5-18-19— 12-5— 4-9-23— I4-5-2I-22-9-5-I3-5— 
I9-9-53I2-5. 
By taking each of the preceding figures as a letter, 1 
| as a, 2 as b, 12 as /, and fo on ; we find the following fen- 
tence, — Louis Napoleon Buonaparte, reprefentant du peu- 
\ pie de dix departements, f era prefident de Reptiblique Fran- 
i caife, indivifible, democratique , par le fuffrage univerfel, 
' vers le dix neuvieme fiecle, which, tranflated into Englifh, 
! is, — ' Louis Napoleon Buonaparte, reprefentative of the 
i people from ten departments, will be Prefident of the 
French Republic, indivifible, democratic, by univerfal 
fuffrage, about the nineteenth century.' 

The addition of all the figures reprefenting letters of 
every word gives the following numbers : — 

Louis .... 77 du .... 25 

Napoleon . . . .92 peuple . . . .75 

Buonaparte . . . 113 de 9 

reprefentant . . .155 dix 36 

Carried forward, 582 



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The great rival with Napoleon in the military 

glories 



Brought forward . 


582 


le . . . 


. 17 


departements 


140 


fuffrage . 


73 


fera .... 


•• 43 


univerfel • 


. 128 


prefident 


no 


vers 


... 64 


de . • . 


9 


le . 


■ 17 


Republique . 


126 


dix 


. . 36 


Franf aise . 


. 76 


neuvieme . 


• 94 


indivifible 


114 


fiecle 


53 


democratique . 


• 131 







par .... 


35 




1848 



As will be feen, the total of thefe figures makes ex- 
actly 1848, the year of his election. 

The following curious effect of the combination of 
figures 'has been fent to us by a friend in Paris, who 
ftates that it has been extenfively circulated in that capi- 
tal. We have not yet feen it in print here. 

The votes upon the Prefidency of Louis Napoleon 
were, — 



In favor. 



In oppofition. 



7Jffl36l/rfMH 



m 



Place the above in front of a mirror, fo that the reflec- 
tion of it may be vifible. This reflection will read, " III 
Empereur" — Third Emperor. Louis Napoleon affects 
hereditary fuperftition, and it is ftated that this lingular 
coincidence confirmed him in the belief which he has 
always entertained of the exalted deftiny for which Prov- 
idence referved him. " — Harper's Magazine, 185?. 



In a very curious book, 



Louis Napoleon, the deftined 
Monarch 



Introduction. 



glories of the age furnifties a no lefs appropri- 
ate anagram : — 

Arthur Wellefley, Duke of Wellington. 
Let well foil'd Gaul fecure thy renown. 

A good one on Nelfon is — 

Horatio Nelfon — Honor eft a Nilo. 

So, too, — 

Henry John Templeton, Vifcount Palmerfton, 
Only the Tiverton, M. P., can help in our mefs. 

Perhaps no one name ever was more fucceff- 
fully anagrammatized than that of Luther. 

Doctor 

Monarch of the World (New York : D. Appleton & Co., 
no date), pp. 34-38; there is much learned calculation 
to fhow that Napoleon and.Apollyon are one and the 
fame name, and that the myftical number 666, (which the 
author afferts to be the number alluded to in the Apoca- 
lypfe, where it fays the number of the wild beaft is the 
number of a man,) is found in the name as now fpelled. 
He alfo difcovers an allufion to the name Napoleon, in 
Jeremiah iv. 7, where the defolation of Paleftine by the 
laft great Antichrift is defcribed, " The lion is come up 
from his thicket, and the deftroyer of the Gentiles is on 
his way : he is gone forth from his place to make thy 
land defolate." Now in Greek, fays the author, vdnog 
is a thicket, and leov a lion ; and the two words com- 
bined exactly make the name Napoleon, NairoXeov. 

The book abounds in bootlefs erudition of the fame 
fort, which, in view of late events in Europe, may be 
curious enough to repay a perufal. 



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Doclor Martinus Lutherus gives, when trans- 
pofed, — ' 

O, Rom, Ltither iji derfckwan. 
D. Martinus Lutherus = Ut turris das lumen. 
Vir multa Jlruens. 
Ter matris viduus. 



Martinus Lutherus, 



and 



Martin Luther: 
poverty. 



Lehrt in Armuth — He teaches in 



The following, if we allow P. C. to ftand for 
Princefs Charlotte^ is excellent : — 

Princefs Charlotte Augufta of Wales- 

P. C. Her auguft race is loft, O fatal news. 

When, at the General Peace of 1^14, Pruffia 
abforbed a portion of Saxony, the king iffued a 
new coinage of Rix Dollars, with their German 
name, Ein Reichjlahler^ impreffed on them. The 
Saxons, by dividing the word — Ein Reich flahl 
er, made a fentence, of which the meaning is, 
" He ftole a kingdom." Likewife the French 
difcovered that La Sainte Alliance., is nothing 
more than La Sainte Canaille. 

The following are very appofite : — 



Aftronomer: 



No more ftars. 

Moon Starers. 
Impatient = Time in a pet. 
Immediately = I met my Delia. 



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Elegant = Neat leg. 




Parifhioners = I hire parfons. 






Parliament = Partial men. 






Penitentiary = Nay, I repent it. 






Puniihment = Nine thumps. 






Midfhipman =Mind his map. 






Matrimony = Into my arm. 






Sweetheart = There we fat. 






James Stephens, Fenian Head Centre 


= Hence, 




defperate man. He ifn't fafe in. 






Stone* — Notes. 






Gallantries = All great fin. 






Mifanthrope = Spare him not. 






Telegraph = Great help. 






Melodrama = Made moral. 






Monarch = March on. 






Catalogue = Got as a clue. 






Radical Reform = Rare mad frolic. 






Charades = Hard cafe. 






Revolution = To love Ruin. 






Lawyers = Sly ware. 






Funeral = Real fun. 






If you tranfpofe what ladies wear — 


Veil. 




'Twill plainly mow what bad folks are — 


Vile. 




Again if you tranfpofe the fame, 






You'll fee an ancient Hebrew name — 


Levi. 




Change it again, and it will fhow 






What all on earth defire to do — 


Live- 




Tranfpofe the letters yet once more, 






What bad men do you'll then explore — 


Evil. 




When I cry that I fin is tranfpofed, it is clear 




My refource, Christianity, foon will appear. 






Cotton 




* So, though we cannot always expect to find fermons 


n ftones, we 




! may confidently look for the notes. 







44 



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Introduction. 



Cotton Mather was once apoftrophized for his 

" Care to guide his flock and feed his lambs 
By words, works, prayers, pfalms, alms, and Ana- 
grams." 

In Taylor's " Suddaine Turne of Fortune's 
Wheele," occurs the following: — 

But holie father, I am certifyed 
That they your power and policye deride; 
And how of you they make an anagram, 
The beft and bittereft that wits could frame. 

Pierre de St. Louis became a Carmelite 
monk, on difcoyering that his name yielded a 
direction to that effect : — 

Ludovicus Bartelemi. 
Carmelo fe devolvet. 

And, in the feventeenth century, Andre Pujom, 
finding that his name fpelled Pendu a Riom, 
fulfilled his deftiny by cutting fomebody's throat 
in Auvergne, and was actually hung at Riom, 
the feat of juftice of that province. 

Rhopalic Verses (from po-n-aXbv, the club of 
Hercules) begin with a monofyllable, and grad- 
ually increafe, as, — 

Rem tibi confeci, doctiffime, dulcifonoram. 
Spes Deus asternae ftationis conciliator. 

And again, — 
Ex quibus infignis pulcherrima Deiopeia. — Virgil. 
y Q, fiuKap 'ATpeidr] (j.0Lp7]yeveg, d2,Lj3c66ac/nov. — Iliad, y. 182. 

The 



Introduction. 



The next is the reverfe : — 

Vecligalibus armamenta referre jubet Rex. 

Another ingenious verfe is the Palindrome, 
from -koXiv and Spo/xeco, to flow or run back ; 
fometimes called Sotadic verfe, from Sotades, 
their inventor, though a higher (or a lower) au- 
thority is fometimes given \ the firft palindrome 
having been, according to one account, the im- 
promptu of an unfortunate demon, while carry- 
ing moft unwillingly a portly canon of Combre- 
mer from Bayeux to Rome ; it reads the fame 
either backwards or forwards, which is the ef- 
fential of a palindrome : — . 

Signa te, figna, temere me tangis et angis.. 
Roma tibi fubito motibus ibit amor. 

Another legend refers this palindrome to 
Satan himfelf, while carrying St. Martin on his 
moulders. Its tranflation is, " Crofs yourfelf, 
crofs yourfelf; you annoy and threaten me un- 
neceffarily ■ for, owing to my exertions, you 
will foon reach Rome, your object." 

Other examples are : — 

Si bene te tua laus taxat, fua laute tenebis, 
Sole medere pede, ede, perede melos. 

Again : — 

Et necat eger amor non Roma rege tacente, 
Roma reges una noft anus eger amor. 

In 



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4° 



Introduction. 



Introd.! In which the word non ferves as a pivot. 
Each word in the line — 

Odo tenet mulum, mappam madidam tenet Anna, 

is a perfecl palindrome. 
The line — 



Sator arepo tenet opera rotas, — 

befides being a palindrome, can be arranged in 
a fquare, when it will be perceived that the firft 
letters of each of its words fpell its firft word 
Sator ; the fecond, from the fecond of each, its 
fecond word Arepo, and fo on ; thus : — 

SATOR 
AREPO 
TENET 
O P-E R A 
ROTAS 

The fame properties exift in the Latin words 
Time, Item, Meti, and Emit ; thus : — 

TIME 
ITEM 
METI 
EMIT 

The following epitaph, at the entrance of the I 
Church of San Salvador, in the city of Oviedo, j 
in Spain, erected by Prince Silo, may be read I 
two hundred and feventy different ways, by be- \ 
ginning with the S in the centre. 

Silo 






Introduction. 


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Silo Princeps Fecit. 


Introd. j 


TICEFSPECNCEPSFECIT 




ICEFSPECNINCEPSFECI 




CEFSPECNIRINCEPCFEC 




EFSPECNIRPRINCEPSFE 




FSPECNIRPOPRINCEPSF 




SPECNIRPOLOPRINCEPS 




PECNIRPOLILOPRINCEP 




ECNIRPOLISILOPRINCE 


! 


PECNIRPOLILOPRINCEP 


1 


SPECNIRPOLOPRINCEPS 




FSPECNIRPOPRINCEPSF 




EFSPECNIRPRINCEPSFE 




CEFSPECNIRINCEPSFEC 




ICEFSPECNINCEPSFECI 




TICEFSPECNCEPSFECIT 




On the tomb are infcribed thefe letters : — 




H. S. E. S. S. T. T. L. 




The letters employed in this fquare being 




the initials of the words, — 




Hie fitus eft Silo, lit tibi terra levis. 




Here lies Silo, may the earth lie light on him. 




The lawyer's motto, — 




.JSl NUMMIS IMMUNIS — 




Give me my fee, and I warrant you free, 




Is a palindrome. 




In the time of Queen Elizabeth, a noble lady, 




who had been forbidden to appear at court in 




confequence 





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Introduction. 



confequence of fome fufpicions againft her, took 
for the device on her feal, the Moon partly ob- 
fcured by a cloud, with the palindromic motto, — 

Ablata at alba, 
Secluded, but pure. 

Taylor, the water poet, writes : — 

Lewd did I live, and evil did I dwel . 
Another Engifh palindrome is : — 

Snug & raw was I, ere I faw war & guns. 

And one is put into the mouth of Napoleon 
the Great : — 

Able was I ere I faw Elba. 

There is an enigma, in which the initials of 
five palindromic words are to be fought, to 
form the required anfwer • e. g. : — 

Firft find out a word that doth filence proclaim, 

And that backwards and forwards is always the fame ; 

Then next you muft find out a feminine name, 

That backwards and forwards is always the fame ; 

An a£t, or a writing on parchment, whofe name, 

Both backwards and forwards is always the fame ; 

A fruit that is rare, whofe botanical name, 

Read backwards and forwards is always the fame ; 

A note ufed in mufic which time doth proclaim, 

And backwards and forwards is always the fame ; 

Theis. initials connected, a title will frame 

(That is juftly the due of the fair married dame,) 

Which backwards and forwards is always the fame. 

There 



Introduction. 



There is a well-known Greek infcription on 
the font at Sandbock, in Chefhire, England, as 
well as in the Church of St. Sophia, at Con- 
ftantinople : — 

Ni<j>ov avofirifiaTa (it) (ibvav otbcv. 

That is, freely, " Purify the mind as well as the 
body." 

The following verfes are reverfible in fenfe, 
as well as in words, by being read backwards : 

Profpicimus modo, quod durabunt tempore longo, 
. Foedera, nee patriae pax cito diffugiet. 

Diffugiet cito pax patriae, nee fcedera longo, 
Tempore durabunt quod modo profpicimus. 
Patrum dicta probo, nee facris belligerabo.* 

The following are promifcuous examples : — 

Retro mente labo, non metro continuabo. 
Continuibo metro ; non labo mente retro. 
Sacrum pingue dabo, non macrum facrificabo. 
Sacrificabo macrum non dabo pingue facrum. 

It is obfervable that the laft above hexameter, 
from Santa Marca Novella, Florence, refers, in 
the firft inftance, to the facrifice of Abel (Gene- 
fis iv. 4) ; reverfed, as in the fecond line, the 
reference is to the facrifice of Cain (Gen. iv. 

3)- 

Area 

* Expreffing the fentiments of a Romanift or a Hu- 
guenot, as it is read forwards or backwards. I 
4 



49 



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50 



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Intro duttion. 



Area ferenum me gere regem, munere facra, 
Solem, areas, animos, omnia facra, melos. 

Epitaph on Henry IV., by Pafcha/cus. 

The two following are palindromes : — 

Madam I'm Adam, 
Name no one man. 

And Addifon tells of a palindrome, called 
" The Witches' Prayer," which " fell into verfe, 
when read either backwards or forwards, ex- 
cepting only that it bleffed one way and curfed 
the other." 

In 1802 was printed at Vienna a fmall vol- 
ume of palindromes, written in ancient Greek, 
by Ambrofius, a modern Greek. The volume, 
which was called " Ho^/xa x a PX tvt X° r >" con " 
tains four hundred and fifty-fix lines, ever}' one 
of which is palindromic. Here follows a few of 
them : — 

'loa iraoi Irj re yrj, 2u 6 Movcrjye-ijg iq airaow 
Neav uao) f^eTiKpuvov, d bike, Muoav, aev. 
'Q XanuviKE, ae (/.ovu to No/ze, ae kivo kcum. 
'Apera ■arjyaae oe oa yq narepa'. 
2oTT]p av ecu, o) e/lee #ee leu og evg prjrcjg. 

Palindromic verfe, which exactly reverfes its 
meaning upon being read backwards, is fome- 
times called Sidonian verfe, fuch having been 
firft conftructed by Sidonius. 

The .example given below was written in 

praife 



Introduction. 



praife of Pope Clement VI. (fome fay Pius 
II). The poet, fearing, however, that he might 
not receive as great a reward as, in his own ef- 
timation, he deferved, retained the power of 
converting his flattery into abufe, by fimply giv- 
ing his friends the cue, to commence at the laft 
word, and read backwards : — 

Pauperibus tua das gratis, nee munera curas 
Curia Papalis, quod modo percipimus. 
Laus tua, non tua fraus, virtus non copia rerum, 
Scandere te faciunt, hoc decus eximium. 
Conditio tua fit ftabilis, nee tempore parvo 
Vivere te faciat hie Deus omnipotens. 

Of the fame kind, are thefe three diftiches by 
Du Bellay, a French poet : — 

AD JULIUM III. PONTIFICEM MAXIMUM. 

Pontifici fua fint Divino Numine tuta 
Culmina, nee montes hos petat Omnipotens. 

AD CAROLUM V. CESAREM. 

Caefareum tibi fit felici fidere nomen, 
Carole, nee fatum fit tibi Caesareum. 

AD FERDINANDUM ROMANORUM REGEM. 

Romulidum bone Rex, magno fis Caesare major, 
Nomine, nee fatis, aut minor imperio. 

A complete fpecimen appears in the line ap- 
plicable either to Cain or Abel, being also hex- 
ameter in the one cafe, and pentameter in the 
other ; juft given, in treating of palindromes. 

The 



51 



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52 



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Introduction. 



The line, — 

Patrum di6ta probo, nee facris belligerabo — 

Is a Sidonian, as well as feveral others before 
given, among the palindromes. 

Dean Swift ufed to write to Dr. Sheridan in 
words unintelligible as they flood, but capable 
of being turned into tolerable Englifh by being 
read backwards. Thus : — 

Mi fana. Odiofo ni mus rem. Moto ima os illud dama 
nam ! 

(I'm an afs. O, fo I do in fummer. O, Tom, I am fo 
dull, I a mad man!) * 

Equivocal Verse is another learned and in- 
genious amufement, and will explain itfelf in 
the following examples. "The Double-faced 
Creed," the firft of thefe, is to be read either 
acrofs both columns, or taking each column 
feparately : — 



Pro fide teneo fana 
Affirmat quae Romana 
Supremus quando Rex eft 
Erraticus turn Gex eft 



Quae docet Anglicana 
Videntur mihi vana, 
Tunc plebs etft fortunata, 
Cum caput fiat Papa, 
Communio fit inanis 
Cum menfa vino panis 
Hunc morem qui non capit, 
Catholicus eft, et fapit. t 

Which 

* See poft p. 57. 

t Weekly Paquet of Advice from Rome, May 6, 1679, 
No 23. 



Altare cum 


ornatur 


Populus turn 


beatur 


Afini nomen 


meruit 


Miffam qui 


deferuit 






Introduction. 



Which may be tranflated as follows : — 

What England's Church allows 
My confcience difavows 
The flock can take no fhame 
Who hold the Pope fupreme 
The worfhip's fcarce divine 



I hold for found faith 
What Rome's faith faith 
Where the king's head 
The flock 's mifled 
Where th' altar's drefled 
The people 's bleffed 
He 's but an afs 
Who fhuns the Mafs 



Whose table's bread and wine 
Who their communion flies 
Is catholic and wife. 



The following lines were written in anfwer to 
the queftion, " What the author thought of the 
new Conftitution ? " at the commencement of 
the French Revolution. The writer evidently 
did not intend to be guillotined for his parti- 
fan enthufiafm : — 



A la nouvelle loi 
Je renonce dans l'ame 
Comme epreuve de ma foi 
Je crois celle qu'on blame 
Dieu vous donne la paix 
Nobleffe defolee 
Qu'il confonde a jamais 
Meffieurs de l'Aflemblee 



Je veux etre fidele 
Au regime ancien 
Je crois la loi nouvelle, 
Oppofee a tout bien : 
Meffieurs les Democrats, 
Au diable allez vous en : 
Tous les Ariftocrats 
Ont eux feuls le bon fens. 



Of which the tranflation, preferving the Equiv- 
oque, is : — 



The newly made law 
From my foul I abhor 
My faith to prove good 
I maintain the old Code 
May God give you peace 



Tis my wifli to efteem 
The ancient regime 
I maintain the new Code 
Is oppofed to all good 
Meffieurs Democrats 

Forfaken 



53 



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Introd. 



Forfaken Nobleffe 

May He ever confound 

The Affembly all round 



To the devil go hence 

All the Ariftocrats 

Are the fole men of fenfe. 



Here is an Englifh one : — 



THE HOUSES OF S^ 

I love with all my heart 
The Hanoverian part 
And for that fettle ment 
My confcience gives confent 
Moil righteous is the caufe 
To fight for George's laws 
It is my mind and heart 
Tho' none will take my part 



UART AND HANOVER. 

The Tory party here 
Moft hateful do appear ; 
I ever have deny'd 
To be on James's fide, 
To fight for fuch a king 
Will England's ruin bring. 
In this opinion, I 
Refolve to live and die. 



The following was written during the Ameri- 
can Revolution : — 

Hark! hark I the trumpet founds the din of war's alarms, 
O'erfeas and f olid grounds , doth fummon us to arms; 
Who for King George do fland, their honors foon will 

fhine, 
Their ruin is at hand, who with the Congrefs join. 
The acts of Parliament, in them I much delight; 
I hate their curfed intent, who for the Congrefs fight; 
The Tories of the day, they are my daily toaft, 
They foon ivillfneak away, who independence boaft, 
Who non-refflance hold, they have my hand and heart ; 
May they for flaves be fold, who a6l a whiggifh part. 
On Manffield, North, and Bute, may daily bleffings pour, I 
Confufion and defpite, on Congrefs evermore ; 
To North, that Britifh lord, may honors ftill be done, 
Iwijh a block and cord, to General Wafhington. 

Other examples are found occafionally in 

Latin 



Introduction. 



Latin, French, and Englifh. In the latter there 
is quite a celebrated one on the Vicar of Bray. 
So Haydn, among other playful elmlitions of 
his fancy, has introduced into one of his fym- 
phonies, a minuet and trio, which are flrft to be 
played in the regular way, and then repeated 
backwards. 

The following fpecimen of " a Serpentine, or 
double-faced Letter," is by the celebrated Car- 
dinal Richelieu, introducing a Benedictine 
friar to the French AmbafTador at Rome : — 



Matter 



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56 



Introduction, 



Mafter Compy, a Savoyard, 
is to be a bearer to you of 
this letter. He is one of the molt 
vicious perfons that I ever yet 
knew, and has earneftly defired me 
to give him a letter of 
recommendation, which I granted to his 
importunity. For believe me, Sir, 
I would be forry you fhould be 
mistaken in not knowing him, 
as many others have been, 
who are of my beft friends. Hence 
it is, that I defire to advertife you 
to take fpecial notice of him, 
and fay nothing in his prefence 
in any fort. For I may and do 
affure you, there cannot be a more 
unworthy perfon in the world. 
I know that as foon as you 
shall be acquainted with him, you 
will thank me for this advice. 
Civility doth hinder me to 
say more upon this fubje6l. 



Introduction. 



Friar of the order of St. Benedict, 
news from me by means of 
difcreet, wife, and leaft 

among all I have converfed with, 
to write to you in his favor, 
credence, with fome preffing 
merit, I affure you rather than 
he deferves infinitely your efleem, and 
wanting to oblige him by your being 
I fhould be afflicted if you were fo 
on that account, who will efteem him, 
and from no other motive 
that you are obliged more than any 
to afford him all imaginable refpecl 
that may offend or difpleafe him, 
. truly fay, I love him as myfelf, and 
convincing argument of an 

than to be capable of doing him an injury, 
ceafe to be a ftranger to his virtues, and 
will love him as well as I, and 
The affurance I have of your great 
write further of him to you, or td 

RICHELIEU. 

To be underftood as the writer meant it, the 
right hand column mult, be omitted altogether ; 
but the lines being read directly acrofs the 
page, convey a warm recommendation. The 
letter is not only curious, but very fuggeftive. 

Piecemeal is a combination of Latin words 
in themselves incoherent, but which, pronounced 
rapidly, in fome fort refemble the found of Eng- 

lifli 



57 



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58 



Introd. 



Introduction. 



lifli. In this dialect Dean Swift and Dr. Sheri- 
dan ufed to correfpond. To illuftrate : — 
Is his honor fie ? Prae letus felis pulfe. 

The Dean once wrote to the Doctor : — 



Mollis abuti, 
Has an acuti, 



No laffo finis 
Molli divinis. 



Whereat the Doctor retorted : — 

I ritu a verfe o na Molli o mi ne, 

Afta laffa me pole, a laedis o fine ; 

I ne ver neu a nifo ne at in mi ni is, 

A manat a glans ora fito fer diis. 

• 
De armo lis abuti, hos face an hos nos is 

As fer a fal illij as reddas aro fis, 

Ac is o mi molli is almi de lite, 

Illo verbi de, an illo verbi nite. 

At which ftage of the difpute the Dean of St. 
Patrick's fhuts down on the whole affair, in 
lofty moral drain, as follows : — 

Apud in is almi de fi re, 
Mimis tres I ne ver re qui re ; 
Alo' ver I findit a geftis, 
His miferi ne ver at reftis. 

Here is a poem by an Oxford " firft," which 
merits prefervation : — 

MY MOLLI ANNE — AN IRISH BALLAD. 

O Pateo tulis a ras cale fel o ! 

He betetis vivis id, an fed, " aio puer vello," 

Vittis nox, certias in erebo de nota olim, 



Introduction. 



A mite grate finimus tonitus ovem — 

" Prae facer, do tellus, haufit," fefe 

" Mi Molle anni cano te ver aegre ? " 

Ure Molle anu cano te ver aegre, 

Vere trufo aio puellis tento me. 

Thea rafonis piano " cum Hymen (heu fedit) 

Diutius toga thyrfo " — Hymen edidit — 

Sentior mari aget O mare nautis alter id, alas, 

Alludo ifto terete ure daris poufis anas. 

" O Pater hie, heu vix en," fes Molle, and vi ? " 

Heu itera vere gratis troche in heri : 

Ah Molle re arti fere procacitur intuitus, 

Vos me ! for de parte da vas are arbutetes, 

Thus thrafonis planas vel huma fe 

Vi ure Molle anu cano te ver aegre. 

Betae Molle indulgent an feutas agile 

Pares peclor fex, uno vimen ars ille. 

" Quietat ure fervis I am," fato hereas heu pater, 

" Audio do Miffis Molle, an vatis themater ? " 

Aru mi honeftatis vetabit diu fee ? 

" O mare mi dare O cum fpecto me. 

Ago in a vae aeftuare ? vel uno more illic, 

O mare mi dare, cum paclo ure pater hie." 

Beavi ad vifu civile an focia luce 

Ure Molle an huma fore ver aegre. 

The key to which is, — 

Oh, Patty O'Toole is a rafcally fellow, 

He beat his wife's head and faid, " I hope you are well, 

O ! " 
With his knocks, fir, fhe has not in her body a whole 

limb — 
A mighty great fin I muft own it is of him. 
" Pray, fay, fir, do tell us how is it," fays he, 

"That 



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Introd. 



" That -my Molly and I cannot ever agree ?" 

Your Molly and you cannot ever agree, 

Very true, fo I hope you will liften to me. 

The rafon is plain, " O come Hymen " (you faid it), 

" Do you tie us together," fo Hymen he did it. 

Since your marriage to Mary now 'tis altered alas ! 

All you do is to treat your dare fpoufe as an afs. 

" O, Patrick, you vixen," fays Molly, and why ? 

You hit her a very great ftroke in her eye. 

Ah, Molly, her heart, I fear, broke, as 'twere in two is, 

Woe's me, for departed away fure her beauty is ; 

Thus the rafon is plain — as well you may fee — 

Why your Molly and you cannot ever agree. 

Be to Molly indulgent and fwate as a jelly, 

Pay refpect to her fex, you know women are filly. 

" Quite at your fervice I am," fay to her. as you pat her, 

" How d'ye do, Miffus Molly, and what is the matter ? " 

Arrah, my honey, ftay, 'tis wait a bit, d'ye fee ! 

" O, Mary, my dary, O, come fpeak to me ! 

A-going away, is't you are, well you no more I'll lick, 

O, Mary, my dare, come back to your Patrick." 

Behave, I advife you civilly, and fo fhall you fee, 

Your Molly and you may forever agree. 

Which, with a late one from an M. D. at the 
" Hub," will illuflrate the fecond clafs : — 

Do&ores ! Ducum nex mundi nitu Panes ; tritucum 
at ait. Expe6lo meta fumen, and eta beta pi. Super at- 
tente one — Dux, hamor clam pati ; fum parates, nom- 
ine, ices, jam, etc. Sideror hoc. 

" Fefo refonam ; floas fole." 

For whole pages of this learned trifling, the 
reader is referred to Dean Swift's works. 

Bagatelle 



Introduction. 



Bagatelle is a doggerel, or familiar rhyme, 
written in, or tranfferred into good Auguftan 
Latin. 

Walter de Mapes, the facetious Arch-deacon 
of Oxford in the time of Harry the Second, 
and Golias, were great manufacturers of Bur- 
lefque Latin. The following is by Mapes, and 
is found in Camden's " Remains " (4to, Lon- 
don, 1614) : — 

BACCHANALIAN ODE. 
Mihi eft propofitum in tabernum mori, 
Vinum lit appofitum morientis ori, 
Ut dicant cum venerint angelorum chori 
" Deus (it propitius huic potatori ! " 

Poculis accenditur animi lucerna, 
Cor imbutum ne&are volat ad fuperna ; 
Mihi fapit dulcius vinum in taberna, 
Quam quod aqua mifcuit Praefulis pincerna. 

Suum cuique proprium dat natura munus, 
Ego nunquam potui fcribere jejunus, 
Me jejunum vincere poflet puer unus ; 
Sitim et jejunium odi tanquam funus. 

Tales verfus facio quale vinum bibo, 
Non poffum fcribere nifi fumpto cibo ; 
Nihil valet penitus quod jejunus fcribo, 
Nafonem poft calices facile praeibo. 

Mihi nunquam fpiritus prophetice datur, 
Nifi cum fuerit, venter bene fatur ; 
Cum in arce cerebri Bacchus dominatur, 
In me Phoebus irruit, ac miranda fatur. 

Free 



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Introd. 



FREE TRANSLATION. 

Let me die at the vinter's, I pray ; 

And die not till drunk up's the bowl ; 
The worft that of me they can fay, 

Is "Alas ! for his tippling foul." ; 

Tis by wine that the foul is enlightened ; 

By wine it is lifted on high ; 
And tenfold its pleafures are heightened 

When no furly cynic is nigh. 

Each man to his way ; give me mine, 
And that is, to eat, drink, and jest, 

Write I ne'er could, while lacking good wine ; 
But merry, I'll rhyme with the beft. 

Choice my wine, or elfe poor are my ftrains ; 

Not worth, were it weaker, a groat ; 
As long, then, as fancy there reigns, 

Let no one poor Mapes call a fot. 

Not prophecy's felf could infpire me, 
Till once my poor belly's well lined. 

When Ceres and Bacchus once fired me, 
Kind Phcebus ftays feldom behind. 

There is an amufing burlefque of the old 
Monkifh Latin legends, introduced into Whiftle- 
craft's (Hon. J. H. Frere's) National Work, 
which as a fpecimen of rhymed Latin (on which 
fubjecl; there was a valuable work publifhed 
by Sir A. Croke, about forty years ago) is ex- 
cellent : — 

Erant rumores et timores varii ; 

Dies horroris et confufionis 

Evenit 



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63 



Evenit in Calendis Januarii. 
Gigantes, femen malediction is, 
Noftri potentes impii adverfarii, 
Irafcebantur campanarum fonis, 
Hora fecunda centum tres gigantes 
Venerunt ante januam ululantes. 

At fratres pleni defolationis, 
Stabant ad neceffarium prasfidium, 
9 Perterriti pro vitis et pro bonis, 
Et perduravit hoc crudele obfidium, 
Noftri clauftralis pauperis Sionis, 
Ad primum diem proximorum Iduum ; 
Tunc in triumpho fradlo tintinnabulo, 
Gigantes ibant alibi pro pabulo. 

Sed frater Ifodorus decumbebat 
In leclo per tres menfas brachio fracto, 
Nam lapides Mangonellus jaciebat, 
Et fregit tintinnabulum lapide ja6lo ; 
Et omne vicinagium deftruebat, 
Et nihil relinquebat de intacto, 
Ardens molinos, cafas, meffuagia, 
Et alia multa damna atque outragia. 

Lovers of rare and quaint volumes, and fre- 
quenters of bookfellers' flails, are familiar with a 
nomadic production of the year 1622, " Drunken 
Barnaby's Journal of Four Journeys to the 
North of England." In. 1723, one Braithwait 
republifhes it, with fome engravings and an 
Englifti tranflation ; faying of the performance 
on the title-page, that it is " Wittily and Mer- 
rily (though an hundred years ago) compofed, 

found 



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64 



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Introduction. 



found among fome old and mufty books, that 
had lain a long time by in a corner, and now at 
laft made publick." It is preceded by two 
dedications, and a fort of pre-L' Envoi, as fol- 
lows : — 

AD VIATOREM. 

Opida dum peragras, peragrando Poemata fpedtes, 
Speclando titubes, Barnabe, nomen habes. 



AD TRANSLATOREM. 



Peffimus eft Cerdo, qui tranfulit ordine calvo, 
Non res fed voces percutiendo leves, 
Aft hie Tranfiator corii peramabilis Aclor, 
Quirythmo pollens fit ratione fatur. 

INDEX OPERIS. 

Mulciber, Uva, Terms, redolens ampulla, Silenus, 
Effigiem titulis explicuere fuis. 
Sic me Parnaffi deferta per ardua dulcis 
Raptat amor. 

Which feems all to be fuch good fenfe as to 
bear tranflating : — 

TO THE TRAVELLER. 

Towns while thou walk'ft, and fee'ft this Poetry, 
And feeing, ftumbleft, thou art barnaby. 

TO THE TRANSLATOR. 

That paltry patcher is a bold tranfiator, 
Whofe awl bores at the words, but not the matter ; 
But this tranfiator makes good use of leather 
By ftitching rhyme and reafon both together. 



Introduction. 



THE INDEX OF THIS WORK. 

Vulcan, Grape, Venus, Bottle, Silen's hook, 
Have all explained the title of this book ; 
Thus through vaft deferts, promontories wild, 
Parnaffus' Love draws Bacchus' only child. 

The poem is written in doggerel Latin, and 
partakes of the character of all burlefques of 
the period, in being coarfe and loud in its de- 
tails and expreffions, but it is curious and well 
worth preferving neverthefs. Some of its ftan- 
zas are as follows : — 

Veni Oxon, cui comes 

Eft Minerva, fons Platonis ; 

Unde fcatent peramoene 

Aganippe, Hippocrene ; 

Totum fit Athenienfe, 

Imo Comu Reginenfe. 

Inde Godfton, cum Amicis, 
Vidi Tumbam Meretricis ; 
Rofamundam tegit humus, 
Pulvis <5^ umbra corpore fumus ; 
Sic qui teget, quae tegetur, 
Ordine certo fepelietur. 
Veni Gotham, ubi multos 
Si non omnes vidi ftultos 
Nam fcrutanto reperiunam 
Salientem contra Lunam, 
Alteram nitidum puellam 
Offerentem porco fellam. 

Occafionally, too, there occur fuch alliter- 
atives as, — 

5 Jam 



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66 



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Introdudlion. 



Jam Venus Vinis reditura Venis, 
Jam Venus Venis peritura plenis, 
Nam Venus Venis patitur ferenis, 
Nectare plenis. 

The following is a fine example of rhymed 
bagatelle : — 

mousie's address to his army. 
Nunc mores laxantur, 
Nunc plebes mutantur, 
Saltando balandoque, caput mutando, 

Sic dies effufi. 
Plaudendo, ridendoque nafum trudendo, 
Sic nobis abufi. 

Nunc Mures invi6ti ! 
Nunc Ratti Confcripti ! 
Et Ratuli, Catuli, Principes pratuli, 
Depromite vires ! 
In arma ruamus 
Sub parma vivamus 
In nidulis, vidulis currite, ftridulis, 
Indomiti Glires ! 
En horrid a belli ! 
Sed reges expelli, 
Bellando, domandoque caftra pilando 
Nunc cito cernemus. 
Nunc felem jejunum 
Sed mures adunum, 
Edentes,'libentefque corpus augentes 
Nunc femper canemus. 
Vae vobis nunc feles ! 
Sunt nobis fideles 
In pugnis et calcibus cum haftis vel falcibus 

Qui 






Introduction. 



Qui gladios ftringent, 
Et aures et villos 
Et caudas, capillos, 
Figendo mordendoque feles fternendo 
Se fanguine pingent ! 

A curious example is given by M. Delapierre, 
" Macaroniana," p. 148 : " C'efl une invective 
dans laquelle les faux Chretiens et les hypo- 
crites font defignes fous les denominations que 
voici : " — 

Candidaveftigeri, facieftimulantefeveri 
Pulchroperotumidi miffapecunifices, 
Quotidie Chriftocrucifigi, idolicolentes 
C onnubifanftifugae, clammeretr icilegae, 
Verfidolopelles, totorbiperambulotechnae, 
Alticaballequites, fraudipecunilegae, 
Fic~toculofan6ti, mentexitiofife rentes, 
Sanguinicrudibibae, pe&orecelidoli, 
Bombardagladiofunhaftaflammiloquentes, 
Bibliafacrifugae, defipidifcioli, 
Nigradeonati, craffsetenebrseftudiofi, 
Mentebonaprivi, tartarerynnipetas. 

The Reverend Francis Mahoney (Father 
Prout), one of the contributors to " Frafer's 
Magazine," wrote many Latin Bagatelles ; and 
a few fpecimens of his performance of the fort 
under confideration may be permitted. 

Here is a little of " Eveleen's Fall," " O, 
Weep for the Hour," &c. : — 

LAPSUS EMMiE. 

Heu ! lachrymor horam Quae condidit frontem 

Cum 



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Introduction. 



Cum, fraudibus malis, 
Dux virgine coram 
Apparuit vallis. 
Non tulit impune 
Congreffum mifella, 
Cor doluit Lunae 
Pro lapfa puella. 



Sub nubium vello, 
Mox vultum infontem 
Explicuit ccelo, 
Sed utinam cafti 
Sic nominis gemma, 
Quam tu inquinafti, 
Clarefceret, Emma! 



Thus he ferves up " John Anderfon my Jo, 
John": — 

JOANNEM ANDREW FILIUM ANUS UXOR ALLOQUITUR. 

{From the unpubli/hed MSS. of the Admirable Crichton.) 

Senex Johannes ! dulcis amor tuae 
Anilis seque conjugis ! integra 

Cum nos juventa jungeremur, 

Quam bene csefaries nitebat ! 
Frontis marito qualis erat decor ! 
Nunc, heu ! nivalis canities premit, 

Nullae fed his canis capillis 

Illecebrae mihi cariores ! 
etc.* 

Here is Burns' " Green grow the Rashes : — 

VI RENT 

* I know of nothing that better exhibits the richnefs 
of the Latin tongue than the following verfions of Camp- 
bell's ftandard poem, " Hohenlinden." It will be feen 
that they are almoft totally unlike : — 
Tranflated by Francis Mahoney. Tranjlated by Francis Newman. 

I. I. 

Sol ruit ccelo minuitque lumen, Lindene quum fol fuper occideret. 
Nix fuper terns jacet ufquemunda, Necdum pede nix nee fanguine 
Et tenebrofS fluit Ifer unda tincta 

Flebile flumen! Alba manebat, fluftuque Ifgris 

Nigrans hiemale ruebat. 

Namque 



Introduction. 



VIRENT ARUNDINES. 

Curse corrodunt Urbem, Rus, 
Et fapientum cellulas, 
Nee vita vellem frui plus 
Ni foret ob puellulas — 



Virent 



Namque noclurnus fimul arfit ig- Alia at ruris patuit fades 

nis, LindenS, quando tympana noctu 

Tympanum rauco fonuit boatu, Pulfata jubent atra locorum 
Dum micant flammis, agitante Mortis luftrarier igni ; 

flatu 
Rura malignis. 



Jam dedit vocem tuba ! fax ruben- Parenfque tubas, cit5 fub face quis 

tes que 

Ordinat turmis equites, et ultro Eques inftructus gladium ftringit, 
Fert equos ardor, rutilante cultro, Dum fremebundus prsegeftit equus 
Ine furentes. Diro exfultare tumultu. 



Turn fono colles tremuere belli, Jam conquaffat tonitrus colleis, 
Turn ruit campo fonipes, et aether Jamque inftat equi concltus ardor, 
Mugit, et rubr3. tonitru videtur Procul et casli fulmine majus 

Arce revelli ! Strepitant rubra fulgura bell: 



Ingruit ftrages ! citd, fertegreffum! Acrius ardent. Ite O prorfum, 
Quos triumphatem redimere pul- Quotquot decus e morte oppetetis. 

chro MSnachi ! heus ! tua figna agita 

Tempori laurum juvat I aut fepul- jacta : 

chro Si quid potSs, irrue fortis. 

Stare cupreffum ! 



Hie ubi campum premuere multi, Multi coeunt, pauci excedent : 
Tedta qulm rari patriae videbunt ! Plures lodix nivis obvolvet 
Heu fepulchrali nive quot mane- QuS pes graditur cunque, fub omni 
bunt, Requiefcat cefpite miles. 

Pal ! nee inutili. 



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70 



Introduction. 



Virent arundines I 
At me tenellulas 
Taedet horarum nifi queis 
Inter fui puellulas ! 

One of Mahoney's doggerels I give com- 
plete : — 

Quam pulchra funt ova 
Cum alba et nova, 
In ftabulo fcite leguntur ; 
Et a Margery bell a, 
Quae feftiva puella ! 
Pinguis lardi cum fruftris coquuntur. 

Ut belles in prato, 

Aprico et lato 
Sub fole tarn lacle renident ; 

Ova tofta in menfa. 

Mappa bene extenfa, 
Nittidiffima lanfe confident. 

Which, put into Englifti, is, — 

O ! 'tis eggs are a treat, 

When fo white and fo fweet 
From under the manger they're taken ; 

And by fair Margery, 

(Och! 'tis ftie full of glee) 
They are fried with fat rafhers of bacon, 

Juft like daifies all fpread, 

O'er a broad funny mead, 
In the funbeams fo gaudily fhining, 

Are fried eggs, when difplayed 

On a difh, when we've laid 
The cloth, and are thinking of dining ! 

Profeffor 



Intro duttion. 



Profeffor Newman, of Univerfity College, 
London, has been putting Longfellow's " Hia- 
watha " into Roman, as follows : — 

Ego refpondeo et tibi confirmeo 

Ex filvis atque immenfitatibus herbofis, 

E vaftes feptentrionis lacubis, 

E finibus Ogibbawaiarum, 

E fedibus Dacotarum. 

« Father Prout's Reliques," and " The Odo- 
herty Papers," by the learned Doctor Maginn ? 
who tranflated " Old King Cole " into Hebrew, 
abound in thefe difjecla membra, and to them 
the reader is referred, as well as to the " Arun- 
dines Cami," by Henry Drury. 

Mother Goofe finds herfelf tranfpofed by the 
Bagatelle makers, varioufly as follows : — 

John, John, ye Piper's Son. 

Johannes, Johannes, tibicine natus 
Fugit perniciter porcum furatus, 
Sed porcus voratus, Johannes delatus, 
Et plorans per vias eft fur flagella'tus. 

There was a Man in Our Town. 
In urbe noftra erat vir 
Ut fapiens laudatus, 
In vepres tamen irruit 
Et oculis eft orbatus. 
Quum novit coecum effe fe 
In vepres iterum ve&us 
Recepit lunem ; illo die, 
Is oculis eft perfe6tus. 

What 



71 



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72 



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Introduction. 



What care I how Black I be ? 

Quid eft mihi quo nigra fim ? . 
Aureos habeo bis decim. 
Satin' eft dos ? Non, dicis ? 
Alteros adde tot illis. 
Dabit mihi dos virum ; 
Robufta matris filia fum. 

Ba, da, Black Sheep. 

Ba, ba, mouton noir, 

Avez vous de laine ? 

Oui Monfieur, non Monfieur, 

Trois facs pleine. 

Un pour mon maitre, un pour ma dame 

Pas un pour le jeune enfant qui pleure dans le chemin. 

Hwnpty Dumpty. 

Humptie Dumptie pendait au mur 
Humptie Dumptie tomba fl dur, 
Ni tous les cheveaux, ni les hommes du Roi 
Mettront Humptie Dumptie comme autre fois. 

Little Bo-peep. 

Petit Bo-peep 

A perdu fes moutons 

Et ne fait pas que les a pris, 

O laifles les tranquilles 

111 viendront en ville 

Et chacun fa que apres lui. 

Yankee Doodle came to toiun. 
Ad urbum ivit Doodilius cum Caballo et calone, 
Ornavit pluma pileum, et dixit " Macaroni " ! 



Three 



Introduction. 



Three Wife Men of Gotham, went to Sea in a Bowl. 

Tres Philofophi de Tufculo 
Mare navigarunt vafculo : 
Si vas id effet tutius 
Tibi canerem diutius. 

Ding dong Bell, ye Cat is in ye Well. 

AIANON aVfavov eiire- <j>piap "kafiev, ov%ov, a(3vaaov, 
Tqv yaXk-qv ria rqod' airvoq u[j,n?uiKL7}g ; 

Tvr&bg 'loavvTjg, x^opbv yavoq, alcv'ka etdur 
Tov ya?i£7]v (Hvdioai vrjmov ud'amKOV. 

Twinkle, twinkle, little Star. 

Mica, mica, parva ftella ; 
Miror, quaenam fis tarn bella ! 
Splendens emius in illo 
Alba velut gemma, coelo. 

Boys and Girls come out to play.* 

Garcons et filles venez toujours, 
La lune eft brilliante comme le jour, 
Venez au bruit d'un joyeux eclat 
Venez du bons cceurs, ou ne venez pas. 



Shoo, 



* Mother Goofe, indeed, feems to be the ftandard text- 
book of the funny philologifts. " Mary's Little Lamb," 
for inftance, will never be allowed to reft in the Saxon 
garb, but is conftantly being dreffed in every tongue, and 
macaronic dialect of all. But it is only recently that one 
has arifen bold enough to doubt the ftory, and throw dif- 
credit on the fong. Iconoclafts like Mr. Baring Gould, 
have fhown us againft our will, that William Tell and 

Captain 



73 



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Introduction. 



Shoo, Fly. Don't bodder me. 

Va mouche, laiffez moi tranquille, 
Va mouche, laiffez moi tranquille, 
Va mouche, laiffez moi tranquille, 
Pour je fuis de la compagnie L. 



And 



Captain Smith never did live, but we never expected 
to die doubting the exiftence of " Mary's Little Lamb." 
Strange to fay, a correfpondent fends Every Saturday 
what he calls " The True Story of Mary and her Little 
Lamb," hoping it will take the place of that garbled ver- 
fion which has hitherto been received as authentic : 

Mary had a little lamb, 

Whofe fleece was white as mow, 
And every place that Mary went 

The lamb it would not go. 

So Mary took that little lamb 

And beat it for a fpell ; 
The family had it fried next day — 

And it went very well ! 

We find the following in the * Drawer " of Harper's 
Magazine : u A practical parent objects to the fillinefs of 
our nurfery rhymes, for the reafon that the doggerel is 
rendered pernicious by the abfence of a practical moral 
purpofe, and as introducing infants to the realities of life 
through an utterly erroneous medium. They are taught 
to believe in a world peopled by Little Bo-peeps and 
Goofey, Goofey Ganders, inftead of a world of New York 
Central, Erie, Northweftern Preferred, &c, &c. It is 
propofed, therefore, to accommodate the teaching of the 
nurfery to the requirements of the age, to inveft chil- 
dren's rhymes with a moral purpofe. Instead, for 
example, of the blind wonderment as to the nature of 
aftronomical bodies inculcated in that feeble poem com- 
mencing 






Introduction. 



And the following verfion of a well known 
fong, by Dr. Maginn, we cannot forbear inferting 
entire : — 

BACK 

mencing, " Twinkle, twinkle, little liar," let the child be 
indoctrinated into the recent invefligations of fcience. 
Thus : — 

Wrinkles, wrinkles, folar ftar, 
I obtain of what you are, 
When unto the noonday fky 
I the fpectrofcope apply ; 
For the fpectrum renders clear 
Gaps within your photofphere, 
Alfo fodium in the bar 
Which your rays yield, folar ftar. 

" Then, again, there is the gaftronomic career of Lit- 
tle Jack Horner, which inculcates gluttony. It is practi- 
cable that this fictitious hero fhould familiarize the child 
with the principles of the Deledlus : 

Studious John Horner, 
• Of Latin no fcorner, 

In the fecond declenfion did fpy 
How nouns there are fome 
Which ending in um 
Do not make their plural in i. 

"The epifode of Jack and Jill is valuelefs as]an educa- 
tional medium. But it might be made to illuftrate the 
arguments of a certain fchool of political economifts : — 

Jack and Jill 

Have ftudied Mill, 
And all that fage has taught, too. 

Now both promote 

Jill's claim to vote, 
As every good girl ought to. 

" Even the pleafures of life have their duties, and the 

child 



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7 6 



In TROD. 



Introduction. 



BACK AND SIDE GO BARE. 



Sint nuda dorfum, latera — 

Pes, manus, algens fit ; 
Dum ventri veteris copia 

Zythi novive fit. 
Non poffum multum edere, 

Quia ftomachus eft nullus ; 
Sed volo vel monacho bibere 

Quanquam fit huic cucullus. 
Et quamvis nudus ambulo, 

De frigore non eft metus ; 
Quia femper Zytho vetulo 

Ventriculus eft impletus. 
Sint nuda dorfum, latera — 
Pes, manus, algens fit ; 



Dum 



child needs to be inftructed in the polite relaxation of 
fociety. The unmeaning jingle of " Hey diddle diddle," 
might be inverted with fome utility of a focial kind : — 

I did an idyl on Joachim's fiddle 

At a claflical foiree of June, 
While jolly dogs laughed at themes from Spohr, 

And longed for a popular tune. 

"And the importance of fecuring a good parti, of 
rejecting ineligible candidates, and of modifying flirta- 
tions by a ftrict regard to the future, might be impreffed 
upon the female mind at an early age in the following 

moral : — 

Little Mils Mufiit 
Sat at a buffet 

Eating a bonbon fucre ; 
A younger fon fpied her, 
And edged up befide her, 

But fhe properly frowned him away. 



Introduction. 



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Dum ventri veteris copia 
Zythi novive fit. 



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2. 

Affatum nolo — toftum volo — 

Vel pomum igni fitum ; 
Nil pane careo — pavum habeo 

Pro pane appetitum. 
Me gelu, nix, vel ventus vix 

Afftcerent injuria ; 
Haec fperno, ni addeffet mi 

Zythi veteris penuria. 
Sint nuda, &c. 



Et uxor Tybie, qui femper fibi 

Vult quaerere Zythum bene, 
Ebibit haec perfaepe, nee 

Siftit, dum madeant genae. 
Et mihi turn dat cantharum, 

Sic mores funt bibon* ; 
Et dicit "Cor, en ! impleor 

Zythi dulcis et annofi." 
Sint nuda, &c 



Nunc ebibant, donee niftant 
Ut decet virum bonum ; 

Felicitatis habebunt fatis, 
Nam Zythi hoc eft donum. 

Et omnes hi, qui canthari 
Sunt hauftibus laetati, 



Utque 



78 



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Introduction. 



Atque uxores vel juniores 
Vel fenes, Diis fint grati. 
Sint nuda, &c. * 

The original being as follows : — 



Backe and fide go bare, go bare, 

Both foot and hande go colde : 
But, bellye, God sende thee good ale yenough, 

Whether it be nevve or olde. 
I cannot eat but lytle meate, 

My ftomacke is not goode ; 
But fure I thinke that I can drynke 

With him that weares a hood. 
Though I go bare, take ye no care, 

I am nothing a colde ; 
I fluff my fkyn fo full within, 

Of jolly good ale and olde. 

Backe and fide go bare, go bare, 
Both foote and hande go colde ; 

But, bellye, God fende thee good ale enoughe 
Whether it be newe or olde. 



I love no roft, but a nut-browne tofte, 

And a crab laid in the fyre ; 
A little breade fhall do me ftead, 

Much breade I not defyre. 
No froft nor fnow, nor winde, nor trowe, 



Can 



* Blackwood 's Magazine, July, 1822. The original was 
written by John Still, Bifhop of Bath and Wells, who 
died in 1607, and occurs in the play of Gammer Gurton's 
Needle, of which Still was reputed the author. 



Introduction. 



Can hurt me if I wolde ; 
I am fo wrapt, and throwly lapt, 
Of jolly good ale and olde. 
Backe and fide go bare, &c. 



And Tyb, my wyfe, that, as her lyfe, 

Loveth well good ale to seeke ; 
Full oft drynkes fhee, tyll ye may fee 

The teares run down her cheeke : 
Then dowth fhe trowle to mee the boule, 

Even as a mault-worme fhuld ; 
And fayth, " Sweete hart, I took my parte 
Of this jolly good ale and olde." 
Backe and fide go bare, &c. 



Now let them drynke, till they nod and wynke, 
Even as good felowes fhould doe : 
£» They fhall not myffe to have the blyffe 
Good ale doth bringe men to. 
And all poore foules that have fcrowr'd boules, 

Or have them luftely trolde, 
God fave the lyves of them and their wyves, 
Whether they be yonge or old. 
Backe and fyde go bare, &c. 

Nothing can be more dainty than "The 
Song of the Fairies at Night, in an Apple Or- 
chard," by the courtier, Thomas Randolph : — 

Nos beata fauni proles, 
Quibus non eft magna moles, 
Quamvis lunam incolamus, 
Hortos fsepe frequentamus. 

Furto 



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Introd. 



Introduction. 



Furto cuncta magis bella, 
Furto dulcior puella, 
Furto omnia decora, 
Furto poma dulciora. 

Cum mortales leflo jacent 
Nobis poma noctu placent, 
Ilia tamen funt ingrata 
Nifi furto fint parata. 

And then there is our never to be forgotten 
" Old Lauriger," that the baritones and falfet- 
tos of unnumbered hecatombs of college men, 
have made preeminently a College Song • linger- 
ing longeft in the memory, and welling ofteneft 
to the lips of the Alumnus, tightly woven with 
days when the predilections of a lifetime were 
born, and the friendfhips of a lifetime welded : — 

Lauriger Horatius. 

Lauriger Horatius 

Quam dixifti verum, 

Fugit Euro citius 

Tempus Edax rerum. 

Ubi funt. O pocula 
Dulciora melle 
Rixse, pax, et ofcula 
Rubentis puellae. 

Crefcit uva mollitur, 
Et puella crefcit ; 
Sed poeta, turpiter 
Sitiens, canefcit. 

Ubi funt, &c. 

Quid 



Introduction. 



Si 



Quid juvat aeternitas, 
Nominis ? amore 
Nifi terrae filias 
Licet, et potare. 

Ubi, funt, &c 

It is within the fcope of the prefent work to 
regard the feature of rhyme in Latin verfe, as 
the monopoly of doggerel or trivial themes ; 
but we cannot find it in our heart to refrain 
from fuggefting that the fact is glorioully the 
reverfe. There is no more curious phenomenon 
in the univerfe of letters ; none certainly more 
big with matter for much thought, than the mir- 
acle of the Latin tongue, cold and moribund, 
refurrecled by moderns and aliens, and unfold- 
ing in their novice hands a marvellous vein of 
beauty and elegance, that, through all its golden 
ages, in the alembic of all its poets, orators, 
and fcholars, had lain in dormant and unfuf- 
pected potentiality. Did the dreams of Maro 
or Flaccus ever fhadow forth this great pofnbil- 
ity of Rhyme — a rhyme whofe cadences mould 
modulate the fonorous mufic of their (lately 
tongue, and make it, ages beyond their graves, 
though dead, yet fpeaking? That mould, in 
Chriftian mouths,* unfold a wondrous harmony, 

to 

* Archbifhop Trench, in the Introduction to his '* Sa- 
cred Latin Poetry,' 1 afcribes the birth of Rhyme in Latin 
verfe, to the influence of Chriftianity. He fays, p. 5, k. 



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Introd. 



to fing a heaven they never felt, and a glory 
that was not for them ? Not only did the 
Latin poet live and die in ignorance of its 
charms, but there is good reafon to fuppofe 
that its appearance was regarded as a fatal 
blemim, and therefore dreaded and guarded 
againft with the utmoft folicitude. The reader 

of 

r. A., " When the Church arofe, requiring of it (*. e. the 
Latin language) to be the organ of her divine word, to 
tell out all the new, and as yet undreampt of, which was 
ftirring in her bofom ; demanding of it that it fhould 
reach her needs which had hardly or not at all exifted, 
while the language was in procefs of formation — that 
was already full formed ; it had reached its climacteric, 
and was indeed verging (though as yet imperceptibly) 
towards decay, with all the ftiffnefs of age upon it. . . . 
And we do obferve it, under the new influence, as at the 
breath of a fecond fpring, putting forth itfelf anew, bud- 
ding and bloffoming afrefh. . . . Henceforth the myftical 
element of modern poetry demanded its rights ; vaguer 
but vafter thoughts were craving to find the harmonies 
to which they might be married forever. The boundlefs 
could not be content to find its organ in that, of which 
the very perfection lay in its limitation and its bounds. 
The Chriftian poets were in holy earneft; a verfifi cation, 
therefore, could no longer be endured, attached, as in 
their cafe at leaft it was, by no living bounds to the 
thoughts in which fenfe and found had no real corre- 
fpondence with one another. The verfification hence- 
forth muft have an intellectual value, which fhould affoci- 
ate it with the onward meaning of the thoughts and feel- 
ings, whereof it profeffed to be, and thus indeed fhould 
be, the expreffion. 



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83 



of Juvenal will recall his commentary on the 
line of Cicero (before referred to on page 1), 
which appears to have provoked the S adrift' s 
difpleafure, as much for its fing-fong rhyme as 
for the abfurdity of its felf-conceit. And yet 
this line is a tolerable Leonine, deftined to be- 
come the favorite metre for the Chriftian, to be 
dedicated thenceforward to that rifing feci; the 
heathen poet fo warmly defpifed. There are four 
diftincT: rhymes in Virgil's greateft work, viz. : 

Ipfum, inter pecudes vafta fe mole moventem 
Paftorem Polyphemum, et litora nota petentem. 

' ALneid, lib. iii. 656, 657, 
Haud aliter terras inter coelumque vocabat 
Litus arenofum ac Libyae ventofque fecabat.* 

lb. iv. 256, 257. 
Ducere dona jube. Cun<5ti fimul ore fremebant 
Dardanidae, reddique viro promiffa jubebant. 

lb. v. 385, 386. 
Terribilem criftis galeam flammafque vomentem, 
Fatiferumque enfem, loricam ex aere rigentem. 

lb. viii. 620, 621. 

Cicero, in his " Tufculan Difputations " (1. 
28), quotes from an unknown fource, as fol- 
lows : — 

Ccelum nitefcere, arbor es frondefcere, 
Vites laetificare pampinis pubefcere, 
Rami bacarum ubertate incurvefcere 

If 

* It is fair to remark, however, that thefe two lines, from 
internal evidence other than the rhyme, are regarded as 
fpurious, and interpolated. Vid. Forbiges, Anthon, et al. 



Introd. 



8 4 



Introduction. 



Introd. 



If there ever was a poet whofe numbers 
courted rhyme, it was Horace. His peculiar 
facility of ftru<5r.ure, his pronenefs to experi- 
ment in metre and rythm * and above all, the 
bonhomie of his themes, make his verfes to lack 
only this crowning feature, as we have come to 
regard it, of the Lyric, — if, indeed, they can be 
faid to lack anything, by a critic of to-day. 
Only twice, fo far as we remember, does he 
fuffer a rhyme to intrude upon his pages. The 
firft is, Angularly enough, while expreffmg him- 
felf ftrongly to the effect that a poem mould 
not trull its excellence to charms of rhetoric 
alone : — 

Non fatis eft pulchra effe poemata, dulcia funto 
Et quocunque volent, animum auditoris agunto. 

Ars Poetica, i. 99, 100. 

And again, in the fame poem : — 

Multa recedentes adimunt. Ne forte feniles 
Mandentur juveni partes pueroque viriles ; 

It was not until the Decadence had left the 

Roman tongue in ftranger hands, that this def- 

pifed decoration became the chiefefl ornament 

of the ftru&ure, when under its fpell the cloif- 

ter heard the awful grandeur of the Dies Irae — 

the folemn fweetnefs of the Stabat Mater, and 

everywhere, all over the world to - day, the 

Chriftian fings the beauty and the majefty of 

Terufalem the Golden ! 

J The 



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85 



The Polyglot is a ftyle of writing of which 
Father Prout has furnimed the following exam- 
ple : — 

TO THE HOT WELLS OF CLIFTON. 

IN PRAISE OF RUM PUNCH. 

A Triglot Ode, viz. : — 
1° TLivdapov nepi pevfiarog ydr). 
2° Horatii in fontem Briftolii carmen. 
3° 3&elfcfc (unpuulfs&etr) of " t|)e unfortunate C&at- 
terton." 

PINDAR. 

Jlriyrj BpiaroTuag 
Mallov ev vaku 
Aa(j,irov(f avfiscL cvv 
Ne/crapof at-uj 
2' avrAw 
Fevfiari tto/I/Iw 
Mioyov 
Kai [leTuTog ttoav. 

Avr/p tcav rtf epav 
Bovferai r) fiaxyv 
2o* BaK\ov na&apov 
2ot dtaxpuvvvcei 

6' aifian vd/ia' 
Yi.po&v/iog te 
Tax* eaosTai. 

2e <pkeyy? af&aTuoev 
Zeipiov aarepog- 
Ap/io&L ir2.(j-opl- 
2v upvbg rjdvv ev 

Nrjaoig 



Introd. 



86 



Introduction. 



Introd. 



Nr/ootg 
Av-iXeaaiGi 

K' aidioiruv (ftvAo). 



Kprjvaig ev re /caAaif 

Eaaeac aylarj 

2' ev koi?m nvlaici 

Evdejxevrjv eug 

T/uvriao), 

AaXov e| ov 

"Zov 6e pevpa nadaXkerai. 

HORACE. 

O fons Briftolii 
Hoc magis in vitro 
Dulci digne mero 
Non line fioribus 
Vas impleveris 
Unda 

Mel folvente 
Caloribus. 

Si quis vel venerem 
Aut praelia cogitat, 
Is Bacchi calidos 
Inficiet tibi 
Rubro fanguine 
Rivos, 

Fiet protinus 
Impiger ! 

Te flagrante bibax 
Ore canicula 
Sugit navita : tu 



Frigus 



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87 



Frigus amabile 
Feffis vomere 
Mauris 
Praebes ac 
Homini nigro. 

Fies nobilium 
Tu quoque fontium 
Me dicente ; cavum 
Dum calicem reples 
Urnamque 
Unde loquaces 
Lymphae 
Defiliunt tuae. 

CHATTERTON. 

3J ften gour toortl), 

" 2$ot toells " of Bristol, 

£i)at bubble fort!) 

Win clear as crystal ; 

Xn parlour tfnug 

X'tr tofsft no botter 

£0 mfr a jujj 

<©f l&um ano ©Skater. 

33oti) lobe, goung cl)fcl, 
©ne's bosom ruffle ? 
®ffi?oula ang feel 
&tpe for a scuffle ? 
2Tbe simplest plan 
Ks fust to tafte a 
SSfell stiffen eti can 
©f oltr Jamaica. 



Introd. 



aStneatb 



88 



Intkod, 



Introduction. 



SSeneatt) tfie font 
(iKrofl In a pail or 
asUnn — best alone — 
BeltfllJts tj)e sailor. 
E\)z can l)e stoflls 
0lone rjtbes bffjour 
En t|)e Antilles 
STo to!) ire or nigger. 

Ci)g claims, © fount, 
Deserbe attention. 
J^encetortoarti count 
©n classic mention. 
3Stfg!)t pleasant stuff 
STfofne to tT)e Ifp is . . . 
ffiSfe 'be t)aU enougl) 
©t" Aganippe's. 

Cento Verse is a favorite amufement of the 
learned, the word " Cento " primarily fignify- 
ing a cloak made of patches. Some writers 
have conftructed Homeric or Virgilian Centos, 
wherein portions of the Old or New Tefta- 
ments are related in lines taken entirely from 
Homer or Virgil. The Emprefs Eudoxia wrote 
the life of our Saviour in centos from Homer ; 
while Proba Falconia, and, at a later day, Alex- 
ander Rofs, did the fame in centos from Virgil. 
The Englilh cento is quite common, of which 
the following examples will fuffice : — 

I only knew fhe qme and went, Powell. 

Like troutlets in a pool ; Hood. 

She 



Introduction. 


8 9 


She was a phantom of delight, 


Word/worth. 


Introd. 


And I was like a fool. 


Eaflman. 




One kifs, dear maid, I faid, and fighed, 


Coleridge. 




Out of thofe lips unfhorn, 


Longfellow. 




She fhook her ringlets round her head, 


Stoddard. 




And laughed in merry fcorn. 


Tennyfon. 




Ring out, wild bells, to the wild Iky, 


Tennyfon. 




You heard them, my heart ; 


Alice Cary. 




'Tis twelve at night by the caftle clock, 


Coleridge. 




Beloved, we muft part 


Alice Cary. 




" Come back, come back ! " me cried in 


grief, Campbell 




My eyes are dim with tears — 


Bayard Taylor. 




How lhall I live through all the days ? 


Ofgood. 




All through a hundred years ? 


T. S. Perry. 




'Twas in the prime of fummer time, 


Hood. 




She bleffed me with her hand ; 


Hoyt. 




We ftrayed together, deeply blefl, 


Edwards. 




Into the dreaming land. 


Cornwall. 




The laughing bridal rofes blow, 


Patmore. 




To drefs her dark -brown hair ; 


Bayard Taylor- 




My heart is breaking with my woe, 


Tennyfon. 




Moft beautiful ! moft rare ! 


Read. 




I clafped it on her fweet, cold hand, 


Browning. 




The precious golden link ! 


Smith. 




I calmed her fears, and flie was calm, 


Coleridge. 




" Drink, pretty creature, drink." 


Wordfworth- 




And fo I won my Genevieve, 


Coleridge. 




And walked in Paradife ; 


Hervey. 
The 





90 


Introduction. 


Introd. 


The faireft thing that ever grew Word/worth. 
Atween me and the Ikies ! Ofgood. 




And the three following are better flill : — 




When firft I met thee, warm and young, Moore. 

My heart I gave thee with my hand ; Morris. 
My name was then a magic fpell, Norton. 

Cafting a dim religious light. Milton. 




But now, as we plod on our way, Percival. 

My heart no more with rapture fwells ; McNanghton. 
I would not, if I could, be gay, Rogers. 

When earth is filled with cold farewells ! Patmore. 




The heath this night muft be my bed, Scott. 

Ye vales, ye ftreams, ye groves, adieu ! Pope. 
Farewell for aye, e'en love is dead, Procler. 

*Would I could add, remembrance too ! Byron. 




* In Mr. Saunders' Salad for the Solitary, occurs a 
very ingenious cento : — 




The curfew tolls the knell of parting day 
In every clime, from Lapland to Japan ; 

To fix one fpark of beauty's heavenly ray, 
The proper ftudy of mankind is man. 




Tell, for you can, what is it to be wife, 
Sweet Auburn, lovelieft village of the plain ? 
" The Man of Rofs ! " each lifping babe replies, 
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. 




Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb 
Far as the folar walk or milky way ? 

Procraftination is the thief of time, 
Let Hercules himself do what he may. 




'Tis education forms the common mind, 
The feaft of reafon and the flow of foul ; 

Muft 



Introduction. 



91 



Concatenation or Chain Verfe is an ingen- 
ious fpecies of poetical writing, where the laft 
word or phrafe in each line is taken for the 
beginning of the next. M. Lafphrife, a French 
poet, compofed the following, and claims the 
invention of this ftyle. 

Falloit-il que le del me rendit amoreux, 
Amoreux, jouiffant d'une beaute craintive, 
Craintive a recevoir la douceur exceffive, 
Exceffive au plaifir qui rend l'amant heureux? 
Heureux fi nous avions quelques paifibles lieux, 
Lieux ou plus furement l'ami fidele arrive, 
Arrive fans foupcon de quelque ami attentive, 
Attentive a vouloir nous furprendre tous deux. 

The following will give an idea of the merits 
of this ftyle of compofition : — 



Introd. 



TRUTH. 



Mud be cruel only to be kind, 
And waft a figh from Indus to the pole. 

Syphax, I joy to meet thee thus alone, 
Where'er I roam, whatever lands I fee ; 

A youth to fortune, and to fame unknown, 
In maiden meditation, fancy free. 

Farewell, and wherefoe'er thy voice be tried, 
Why to yon mountain turns the gazing eye ? 

With fpectacles on nofe and pouch on fide, 
To teach the ruftic moralift to die. 

Pity the forrows of a poor old man, 

Whofe beard defcending fwept his aged breafl ; 
Laugh where we muft, be candid where we can, 

Man never is, but always to be bleft. 



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Introduction* 



Introd. 



Nerve thy foul with dodtrines noble, 
Noble in the walks of time, 
Time that leads to an eternal 
An eternal life fublime ; 
Life fublime in moral beauty 
Beauty that fhall ever be .; 
Ever be to lure thee onward 
Onward to the fountain free ; 
Free to every earneft feeker, 
Seeker for the Fount of Youth, • 
Youth exultant in its beauty, 
Beauty of the living truth. 

AD MORTEM. 

The longer life, the more offence ; 
The more offence, the greater pain ; 
The greater pain, the lefs defence ; 
The lefs defence — the greater gain, — 

Wherefore, come death, and let me die. 

The fhorter life, lefs care I find, 
Lefs care I take, the fooner over j 
The fooner o'er, the merrier mind ; 
The merrier mind, the better lover, — 

Wherefore, come death, and let me die. 

Come, gentle death, the ebb of care ; 
The ebb of care, the flood of life ; 
The flood of life, I'm fooner there 
I'm fooner there — the end of ftrife — 
The end of ftrife, that thing wifh I — 

Wherefore, come death, and let me die. 

College 



Introduction. 



93 



College ftudents are the prolific fathers of a 
fort of Latin punning compofition, fuch as 

Mus cucurrit plenum fed 
Contra meum magnum ad. 

Mea mater eft mala fus. 

Or as follows : — 

O unum fculls. You damnum fculls. He didn't do 
fo at all. Sic tranfit drove a tu pone tandem temo ver from 
the north. He is vifiting his ante, Mrs. Dido Etdux, and 
intends Hopping here 'till ortum. He et fuper with us 
laft evening, and is a terrible fellow. He lambda man 
almoft to death the other evening, but he got his match 
— the other man cutis nos off for him and noclem flat urna 
flounder.* 

In 

* Everybody is familiar with Dr. Porfon's pun at din- 
ner, when a waiter overturned the fliced tongue, and the 
Dr. faid it was a " lap/us linguce " ; and how an innocent 
old landed proprietor perpetrated it at his own table 
upon a fimilar accident overtaking the cold corned beef ! 
Sidney Smith propofed as a motto for a well known pur- 
veyor of fauces, a line from Virgil {/En. iv. i), — 
" Gravi j'amdudxim faticia curS." 

A fcholar once wrote on his tea cheft, "Tu doces," Thou 
teacheft. When two malcontents, named Payne and 
Culpepper, were expelled from college, a claffmate faid, 
"Pcenia. perire poteft ; Culpa perennis eft." A tobacconist 
who found himfelf fuddenly rich, and able to ride in a 
carriage, applied for a motto for his panel ; he was fur- 
nifhed the legend, " Quid rides ? " Why do you laugh ? 
(Hor. Sat. i. 69) ; and Dr. Johnfon wrote the following 

epitaph 



Introd. 



94 



Introd. 



Introduction. 



In Charles Reade's " Very Hard Cafli," Dr. 
Sampfon prefcribes for Julia Dodd, as fol- 
lows : — 

Ity Die Mercur. circa x. hor : vefpert : 
eat in mufca ad aulam oppid : 

Saltet cum xiii canicul : 
prcefertim meo. Dom : reddita, 
6 hora matutin : dormiat ad prand : 

Repetat ftultit : pro re nata. 

The druggift to whom it is carried, being 
unable to compound it, the doctor himfelf is 
obliged to tranflate it, which he does as fol- 
lows : — 

On 

epitaph on his cat : " mi-cat inter omnes." A gentleman 
at dinner helped his friend to a potato, faying, " I think 
that is a good mealy one." " Thank you," returned the 
other, " it could not be melior" " Well, Tom, are you 
fick again ? " aflced a ftudent of his friend, and was 
anfwered at once in Englifh and in Latin, " Sic/urn." 
To a lady who fwept down a Cremona violin with her 
mantua, Dean Swift quoted the line ( Virg. Ed. ix. 28), — 

"Mantua vae miferaj nimium vicina Cremojice."' 
" Ah, Mantua ; too near the wretched Cremona ! " 

There is a very old ftory about the gentleman who 
found his pew in church locked, and declined to enter 
becaufe " pudor vetat" And a friend of ours, while 
driving the other day, was anted by a lady if fome bipeds 
they pafled were ducks or geefe. One of the latter at 
that moment lifting up its voice, he inftantly replied, 
11 That's your anfer I " 






Introduction. 



95 



On Wednefday, at ten p. M. let her 
go in a fly to the Town Hall, and 

( little dogs, \ 
dance with thirteen 1 puppies, > ef- 

' whelps, ) 
pecially with mine ; return home 
at 6 a. m. and fleep till dinner, and 
repeat the folly as occafion ferves. 

A prefcription to the tailor would read, — 

Tty Super-Saxoniae, Opt : 
Valenciae Qualitate Praeftant : 
Alberti mill. a. a. quant, fuff. 

Fiant tunica, fubucula, braecaequae laxas, hor. prand. 

gerend. 

That is, — 

Take of the beft Super Saxony, of fine Valencia, 
of Albert mixture, each a fuflicient quantity. Let a coat, 
a veil and trowfers be made to be worn at dinner time. 

I$? Serici Coeruli Virg. vjjj 

T aeniarum Coccin. Virg. v. 
Ut fiat veftis fecundem artem, rofis elegantur ornata. quo 
fe vefperibus adolefcentia ind. 

That is, — 

Take of blue filk eight yards : of crimfon ribbons, five 
yards ; fo that a drefs may be made according to the 
fafliion ; elegantly trimmed with rofes, which let the 
damfel put on evenings. 

The idea of all which is evidently borrowed 
from the following " Recipie for Eternal Salva- 
tion, as well as Temporal Sanity," ported on 

the 



Introd. 



9 6 



Introd. 



Introduttion. 



the door of the phyfical room in the convent of j 
the Capuchin Friars at Meffina. 

Pro prefenti corporis et atczmoe animce falute. 

RECIPE. 

Radicum fidei 

Florum fpei 

Rofarum charitatis 

Liliorum puritatis 

Abfynthe contritionis 

Violarum humilitatis 

Agarici fatiffactionis 

Ano quantum potes : 
Mifceatur omnia cum fyrupe confeffionis ; 
Terentur in mortario confcientiae ; 
Solvantur in aqua lachrimarum ; 
Coquantur in igne tribulationis, et fiat potus 
Recipe de hoc mane et fera. 

Baftard productions like the preceding, little ! 
Japhets in fearch of their fathers, are contin- ; 
ually finding their way into print, and thence to i 
the omnium gatherum of fome humble fnapper- j 
up of unconfidered trifles. Sometimes, through | 
the charity of thefe latter, they find their j 
parents, but rarely. Still, they are always 
readable, curious, and frefli for an idle hour. 

Echo Verses have always been famous in j 
every tongue. Says the " Spectator," * " I find ' 
likewife in ancient times the conceit of making 

the 

* Number 59. 






Introduction. 



the Echo talk fenfibly, and give rational an- 
fwers. If this could be excufable in any writer, 
it would be in Ovid, where he introduced the 
Echo as a nymph, before fhe was worn away 
into nothing but a voice.* The learned Eraf- 
mus, though a man of wit and genius, has com- 
pofed a dialogue upon this filly kind of device, 
and made ufe of an Echo, which feems to have 
been an extraordinary linguift, for fhe anfwers 
the perfon fhe talks with, in Latin, Greek, and 
Hebrew, according as fhe found the fyllables 
which fhe was to repeat in any of thofe learned 
languages. Hudibras, in ridicule of this falfe 
kind of wit, has defcribed Bruin bewailing the 
lofs of his bear, to a folitary Echo, who is of 
great ufe to the poet in feveral 'diftiches, as fhe 
does not only repeat after him, but helps out 
his verfe, and furnifhes him with rhymes." f 
The following is from the Greek anthology : X 

"Axk <p&a |"oi ovyitaTaivEOov ri — (3 ri ; 
Echo ! I love : advife me fomewhat ! — What ? 

The next, in Latin, is found by Motley, in a 
MS. collection of Pafquinades, and cited in his 

" Rife of the Dutch Republic : " — 

Sed 
* Metamorphofis iii. 379. 

t Vid. Ariftophanes, Feaft of Ceres, which burlefques 
the loft Andromeda of Euripides, where it feems there 
was a fcene fimilar to this one above defcribed. 
% iii. 6. 

7 



97 



Introd. 



98 



Introd. 



Introduction. 



Sed at Auftriacum noftrum redeamus — eamus 
Hunc Cefaris filium effe fatis eft notum — notum 
Multi tamen de ejus patre dubitavere — vere 
Cujus ergo filium eum dicunt Itali — Halt. 
Verum mater fatis eft nota in noftra republica — publico,. 
Imo ha&enus egit in Brabantia ter voere — hoere 
Crimen eft ne frui amplexu unius Csefaris tam generofi — 

ofi 
Pluribus ergo ufa in vita eft — ita eft 
Seu poft Cefaris congreffum non vere ante — ante 
Tace garrula ne tale quippiam loquare — quare ? 
Nefcis qua poena atficiendum dixerit Belgium infigne — 
igne, &c. 

The next is by Erafmus : — 

Erasmus loquitur. — " Quid eft facerdotium ? " 
ECHO refp07idit. — " Otium ! " 

The following is by Joachim de Bellay : — 

Qui eft l'auteur de ces maux avenus ? — Venus. 
Qu'etois-je avant d'entrer en paffage ? — Sage. 
Qu'eft-ce qu'aimer et fe plaindre fouvent ? — Vent. 
Dis-moi quelle eft celle pour qui j'endure ? — Dure. 
Sent-elle bien la douleur qui me point ? — Point. 

EPIGRAM ON THE SYNOD OF DORT. 

Dordrechti fynodus, nodus : chorus integer — aeger ; 
Conventus, ventus ; feffio ftramen.' Amen ! 

Palm, of Nuremburg, was court-martialed, 

and fentenced to be fhot at Brenan, in 1807, for 

writing fome echo verfes on Napoleon I., and 

very poor ones they were, too ; poor enough to 

have let the author crawl away, one would 

think. 

The 



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The following will ferve to illuftrate the 
Englifh ftyle : — 

ECHO AND THE LOVER. 
Lover. — Echo ! myflerious nymph, declare 

Of what you're made, and what you are. 
Echo. — Air ! 

Lover. — 'Mid airy cliffs and places high, 

Sweet Echo ! liftening love, you lie. 
Echo. — You lie ! 

Lover. — Thou doft refufcitate dead founds — 

Hark ! how my voice revives, refounds ! 
Echo. — Zounds ! 

Lover. — I'll queftion thee before I go — 

Come, anfwer me more apropos ! 
Echo. — Poh ! poh 

Lover. — Tell me, fair nymph, if e'er you faw 

So fweet a girl as Phcebe Shaw. 
Echo. — Pfhaw ! 

Lover. — Say, what will turn that frifking coney 

Into the toils of matrimony ? 
Echo. — Money ! 

Lover. — Has Phcebe not a heavenly brow ? 

Is not her bofom white as mow ? 
Echo. — Afs ! no ! 

Lover. — Her eyes ! was ever fuch a pair ? 

Are the ftars brighter than they are ? 
Echo. — They are ! 

Lover. — Echo, thou lieft, but can't deceive me. 
Echo. — Leave me ! 

Lover. — But come, thou faucy, pert romancer, 

Who is as fair as Phcebe ? Anfwer ! 
Echo. — Ann, sir. 



Introd. 



LOFC. 



Puns 



100 



Introd. 



Introduction. 



Puns are of conftant occurrence in the claffi- 
cal writers, and have never difappeared from 
literature. Said Sir Thomas More to his friend 
Erafmus : — 
Quaeritur unde tibi lit nomen Erasmus. — Eras mus. 

To whofe hexameter the fage returned a pen- 
tameter : — 

Si fum mus ego, te judice summus ero ! 

Many of the old houfes of Great Britain 
have incorporated in the mottoes on their arms, 
their family names, thus : — 

Ne vile fano. " Difgrace not the altar." Motto of the 
Fanes of Weftmoreland. 

Ne vile velis. " Form no mean wifh." Motto of the 
Nevilles of Abergavenny. 

Templa quam dehcla. " Temples how beloved." Of 
the Temple family. 

Ver non femper viret. "The fpring is not always 
green." Lord Vernon. 

Vero nihil verius. " Nothing is truer than truth." 
Lord Vere. 

Cavendo tutus. " Secure by caution." The Caven- 
dishes, Dukes of Devonshire. 

Bonne et bell affez. " Good and handfome enough." 
Bellasyse, Earl of Fauconberg. 

Me frangas non fleclas. " You may break, but can- 
not bend me." Houfe of Stafford. 

The 






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101 



The following is from an old tombftone : — 

O quid tua te 

be bis bia abit 

ra ra ra 

es 

et in 

ram ram ram » 

i i 

Mox eris quod ego nunc. 

The tranflation of which evidently is : — 

O fuperbe quid fuperbis ? tua fuperbia te fuperabit ? 
Terra es, et in terram ibis. 
Mox eris quod ego nunc. 

On an old monument in SS. Ann and Agnes 
Church, London, is the following : — 

Qu an trif di c vul ' ftra 

os guis ti ro um nere vit 
H fan chrif mi t mu la. 

Here the laft fyllable of each word in the 
upper line is the fame as that of each corref- 
ponding fyllable in the laft line, and is to be 
found in the centre ; it reads thus : — 

Quos anguis trifti diro cum vulnere flravit. 

Hos fanguis chrifli miro turn munere lavit. 
(Thofe who have felt the ferpent's venomed wound, 
In (Thrift's miraculous blood have healing found.) 

The following is a rebus of Jean Marot, valet- 
de-chambre of Francois I. : — 

riant 



Introd. 



102 



Introd. 



Introduction. 



riant 

En 

t tile 

u D'une 

efpoir 

Que 



Mais fus 



Car j'apper 

que 
traits 
Etoient d'amour 



fus n'agueres 

pris 
affettee 

haitee 

vent 

ai 

quand pr f'amour is 
ris 
fes mignards 



mal as 
ee 

riant 
En 
L'ceil . 
Ecus de elle a pris 

moi 
maniere rufee 
te me nant 
Et quand je veux chez elJe e faire e 

que 
Me dit to y us mal apprfs 

riant 
En. 

En fouriant fus n'agueres furpris 
D'une fubtile entree tous affettee, 
Que fous efpoir ai fouvent fouhaitee, 
Mais fus decue, quand f amour entrepris ; 
Car j'appercus que fes mignards fouris 
Etoient fouftraits d'amour mal affuree. 

En fouriant. 
Ecus 



Introduction. 



103 



Ecus foleil deffus moi elle a pris, 
M'entretenant fous maniere rufee ; 
Et quand je veux chez elle faire entree, 
Me dit que fuis entree tous mal appris 

En fouriant. 

LIFE AND DEATH. 

cur f w d dif and p 

A fed iend rought eath eafe ain. 

blef fr b br and ag 

A curfed fiend brought, death, difeafe, and pain, 
A bleffed friend brought breath and eafe again. 

In an old church in Weftchefler County, N. 
Y., the following letters are engraved under the 
ten commandments : — 

• P.R.S.V.R.Y.P.R.F.C.T.M.N. 
V.R.K.P.T.H.S.P.R.C.P.T.S.T.N. 

which only needs the addition of one vowel to 
make the couplet : — 

Perfevere ye perfect men, 
Ever keep thefe precepts ten. 

Before leaving this branch of enigmatical and 
cryptographical writing, we cannot refrain from 
mentioning the molt univerfal of all compofi- 
tion, as univerfal as mortality and diffolution it- 
felf, and fo to continue, alas ! until 'death mall 
be no more, — The Epitaph. It may be well 
faid that every human being is, at the laft, the 
theme of fome one's fong ; and the mafs of 
men and women who come into the world un- 
heralded 



104 



Introduction. 



Introd. 



heralded and unheeded, and, after a little fpace 
of reftleffnefs, go out of it unwept and unhon- 
ored, are ftill not quite unfung. The unlettered 
never draw pen but once. And that is only 
when, over the poor afhes of their fimple breth- 
ren, they carve — 

Some frail memorial 
With uncouth rhymes and ihapelefs fculpture decked, 
To implore the paffing tribute of a figh. 

Their names, their years, fpelt by th' unlettered Mufe, 

The place of fame and elegy fupply ; 
And many a holy text around (he ftrews, 

That teach the ruftic moralift to die. 

So it happens that the cryptographical char- 
acter of the epitaph is mainly the inadvertence 
of the " unlettered Mufe " that fhapes it. But 
many are purpofely and fkillfully involved, and 
among their untold legions (for, as long as the 
world is full of graves, it will be full of epi- 
taphs), there is much food for contemplation. 
Over the bones of Shakefpeare is carved the 
weird incantation, that has kept his mighty 
fhades appeafed, and his facred allies undis- 
turbed : — , 

Good Friend, for JESVS fake forbeare 
To digg t-e dvft EncloAfeD HERE ; 
Bleft be t-e Man \T fpares t — hs ftones, 
And cvrft be He -£\ moves my bones. 

Its 



Introduction. 



105 



Its rude numbers have more than once pre- 
ferved his reft unbroken, and to whom is it not 
familiar ! while the ftately Auguftan diftich near 
by, is unheeded.* 

The life of Sardanapalus is written on his 
tomb, — 

*EZeiE, niNE, IIAIZE/G2 T'AAAA TOTTOT 
'OYK 'ASIA. 




Introd. 



"Eat, Drink, Love, and be merry ; f the reft 
is not worth the fnap of a finger " — the laft 
being expreffed by the logogriph. 

Many of the examples cited in the preceding 
pages are drawn from that literature of tomb- 
ftones — the Epitaph. In Cunwallow Church- 
yard, Cornwall, England, is to be found the fol- 
lowing, which, like the fpecimen on page 47, 
" Silo Princeps Fecit," partakes of the palin- 
dromic character, decipherable from any pofli- 
ble point of vifion, fo that " he may run that 

readeth it : " — 

Shall 

* Judicio Pyliura ; genio Socratem, arte Maronem : 
Terra tegit ; populus moeret ; Olympus habet. 
t Caufabon tranflates IIAIZEIN, " to love." 



o6 



Introd, 





Introduction. 




Shall 


we 


all 


die? 


We 


mail 


die 


all, 


All 


die 


{hall 


we — 


Die 


all 


we 


fhall. 



In the churchyard of Llangerrig, Montgom- 
eryfhire, — 

") f obferve this well, ■ 



O 

That 
Then 
Till 



I ,1 fhall come to dwell ; 



■Earth \ . \ Earth -I „ ,, , , 

I in f j lhall dole remain 

from j i fhall rife again 



Mr. Thorpe, of fomewhere, has the fhorteft 
in the world, — 



THORPE'S 
CORPSE 



But the fubjedt. is too rich and exhauftlefs to 
make it profitable to dip further, where we can- 
not hope to explore. Whole volumes have been 
written on this theme alone, and the mine of 
curious wealth is dill unquarried. We cannot 
better draw our flight notice to a clofe than by 
printing over again that fweeteft and gran deft 
epitaph poet has ever written, — that of the 
Countefs of Pembroke, from the pen of rare 
j Ben Jonfon : — 

Underneath this marble hearfe 
Lies the fubjecl of all verfe, 
Sydney's fifter, — Pembroke's mother. 
Death, ere thou haft flain another 

Fair, 



Introdiittion. 107 



Fair, and wife, and good as fhe, Introd. 

Time fhall throw a dart at thee ! 

Marble piles let no man raife 
To her name in after days ; 
Some kind woman, born as me, 
Reading this, like Niobe 
Shall turn marble, and become 
Both her mourner and her tomb. 



End of the Introduction. 




$art f it$u 



ALLITERATIVE VERSE. 






PUGNA 
PORCORU M 

PER 

P. PORCIUM 

POET AM. 

Paraclefis fro Potore. 



Perlege porcorum pulcherrima prSelia, Potor, 
Potando poteris placidam proferre pcefm. 



NIVERSTADII: 

APUD CASPARUM MYRRHEUM, 
MELCHIOREM THUREUM, 



BALTHASARUM AUREUM. 
I720. 



PUGNA 
PORCO- 



AD LECTOREM 

JODOCUS HELMONTANUS. 

Porciolus Porcos, cecinifti parva croacum, 
Sic condigna refert praemia, Homere tibi. 

AD EUNDEM. 

Maeonides ranas cecinit, fed Porcius ille 
Pofterior Porcos, plaudite utrique precor. 

AD EUNDEM. 

Potando pugnas Porcorum perlege potor, 
Petendis pofuit praemia porciolus. 

Porcorumque procul propellant praelia planctus, 
Perfuadent propter poemata percinere. 

Perdocuit paucis Porcorum pulchra Poeta 
Praelia, perleclo plaudite Porciolo. 






POTENTISSIMO 

PATRONO 

PORCIANORUM 

P. PORCIUS 

POETA 
PROSPERITATEM PRECATUR PLURIMAM. 

Poftquam publice Porci putamur ; praeftan- 
tiffime patrone, placuit Porcorum pugnam 
poemate pangere, potiffime proponendo pericula 
pinguium prselatorum : pugnant pigriter pufil- 
lanimes praelati propter pinguedinis pondus, 
porro potentius Porcelli pauca proceritate per- 
politi : propterea placeat precor puerile poema 
perlegere Porcorum Porcellorumque pugnam 
propofitionibus pictam paribus, periprsepoftere. 

Proditur patronus Porcianorum, 
Primordialibus pun6tis. 

Res Inamcena Caret AfTectu. Laeta Decorem 
Omnimode Afpirat Bellula Habe Ergo Rata: 

Proditur Poeta. 
8 Plural 



PUGNA 

Porco- 
rum. 



ii4 



Pugna Porcoram. 



PUGNA 

PORCO- 

RUM. 



Plura Latent Animo Ccelata, Et non Teme- 
randa 

Indiciis Ullis, Scilicet hoc Volui. 
Praecelfis proavis pulchre, prognate patrone, 
Pec~tore prudenti pietateque praedite prifca, 
Praeter progeniem, praeter praeclara parentum 
Praelia pro patria, pro praefulibufque peracta, 
Pleraque pro populo proprio perfecta potenter 
Pellucens probitate, potentique profperitate, 
Propofito praefente petens plerumque peritos, 
Proptereaque probas philomufos, perfequerif- 

que 
Parnaffo potos, precio precibufque poetas : 
Poftquam percepi puerile placere poema 
Praacipue propter prsefcripta procemia pugnae 
Porcorum, placuit parvam praefigere pugnag 
Pagellam, porci prodentem proprietates 
Plaufibiles, pinguem patronum promeruiffe 
Peclore pinguiculo, pol promeruiffe poetam 
Pingui Porcorum pingendo poemata pugnam. 

Propofitiones Pugnae. 

Porcus piftorum pergunt profternere pugna 
Porcelli, pafti planti per pervia prata. 




PUGN A 
PO RC ORUM 

PER 

P. PORCIUM 



POETAM 




LAUDITE Porcelli Porcorum pigra 
propago. 
Progreditur, plures Porci pingue- 
dine pleni. 
Pugnantes pergunt, pecudum pars prodigiofa, 
Perturbat pede petrofas plerumque plateas, 
Pars portentofe populorum prata profanat, 
Pars pungit populando potens, pars plurima 

plagis 
Praetendit punire pares profternere parvos. 
Primo Porcorum praefecli pectore piano, 
Piftorum Porci proftant pinguedine pulchri. 
Pugnantes prohibent Porcellos, ponere pcenas 
Praefumunt pravis : porro plebs peffima pergit 
Protervire prius, poft prorligare potentes. 
f Proconful paftus pomorum pulte perorat 

Prcelia 
* Proceffus Porcorum ponitur. 
t Propofitio proconfulis. 



PUGNA 

Porco- 
rum. 



I 

I 116 



Pugiia Porcorum. 



PUGNA 

Porco- 
rum. 



Praelia pro pecude parva prodeffe. proinde 
Protervire parum patres perfaepe probaffe 
Porcorum populo pacem pridem placuiffe 
Perpetuam, pads promptae praeconia paffim 
Pro praecone piae pacis per pondera plura 
Proponente preces, prudens pro plebe patronus | 
Porcus praegrandis profert placidiffima pacla. 
* Pacifci placeat Porcis, per praelia prorfum 
Plurima prifcorum perierunt pafcua patrum. 
Praeftat Porcellis potiori pace potiri, 
Praeftat praelatis primam praebere palaeftram. 
Porro proclivis pugnae plebeia poteftas 
f Praelia portendit, per privilegia prifca 
Proponens pugnae Porcos potuiffe patenti 
Proftraviffe pares, per plebifcita probari. 
Porcum pugnacem pecudem, praeclara potefias 
Pendet per Porcos pugnaces, pergite paffim 
Perdere praefeclos, Porci properare pufilli 
4 Perdere pinguiculos, praefeclos praecipitare, 
Pigritia pollent praelati perpetuati, 
Pofrquam plebs pertaefa potentatus penetravit 
Praecipiti pede, Porcelli petiere pufilli. 
Pugnando properare prius, peffundare patres. 
Praeftituunt perfonatos praecurrere porcos 
Propugiles, porro plenum pinguedine putri 

Praeclarum 

* Placidatorum pa6la proponuntur. 

t Proelia portendit. 

X Propterea porcellorum penetratio. 



Praeclarum Porcum piftrino pinfere panem Pugna 

Praecipiunt, per poflicam, per pervia portant. R " M - 

* Propterea properans proconful poplite prono, 

Praecipitem plebem pro patrum pace popofcit. 

Perfta paulifper, pubes preciofa, precamur. 

Penfa profectum parvum pugnae peragendae 

Plures plorabunt poftquam praecelfa premetur 

Praelatura patrum, Porcelli percutientur 

Paffim, pofteaquam pingues porci periere. 

Propterea petimus, praefentem ponite pugnam 

Per pia Porcorum perimus penetralia, pofthac 

Praelati poterint patrata piacula parce 

Perpetrare, procul poftponite praslia parva, 

Prae praslatorum pcenis patientia praeftat. 

t Plebs Porcellorum parte praecone parato 

Porcis praelatis proponit particulares 

Pads particulas : pateant praefentia pa<5la 

Porcorum populo, Porcorum pofteritati. 

Principio petimus praslatos perpetuatos 

Poftponi, propter pia privilegia patrum, 

Porcellos patuit pariformi pondere paftos 

Porcis periimiles, Porcos praeftare pufillos 

Propter pulmonem, propter penetrale palati, 

Pars parvi Porci prunis plerumque peruffca 

Principibus primis portatur, porro putrefcens 

Porcorun* pectus putri pinguedine plenum 

Projicitur 
* Preces proconfulis pro praelatis. 
t Propofitiones Porcellorum particulares. 



PUGNA 
PORCO- 

RUM. 



Pugna Porcorum. 



Projicitur paffim, partim pro pefte putatur, 
Propterea Porcis praelatio praeripiatur. 
Pergite Porcelli praefeclos praecipitare. 
* Pro praelatura Porci pugnare parati 
Profiliunt, pars prata petit, pars prona paludes, 
Prodit praecipuo proterva potentia plaufu, 
Porro Porcelli pulchre per prata perurgent 
Pinguiculos properare procul, penetrare parati 
Per portas patulas, Porcos perfodere pergunt 
Profternunt, pinguedo potens prohibet pro- 
perare. 
f Proterea pacem proponunt ; parcite Porcis, 
Porcelli pofthac potimur pace perenni : 
Propterea pulcher Porcellus praeco politus 
Profpiciens patres pronos peccata profari 
Profpiciens pofitos praeda, pofitofque periclo, 
PropoiTtuni pandit ; pacem perferre poteftis ? 
Parcite prelati, procerum pondus puerile, 
Perdurare parum propter plerofque putatur, 
Perfringunt pacem penitus poft pacl;a pera6ta. 
% Ponite pro paclo pignus, proferre potentes. 
Pro pacis praxi, potiora pericula penfant 
Porcelli, portent pignus pax pacta placebit. 
Princeps Porcorum propria pro plebe pedef- 

tris 
Procumbens, pene perplexus praelia propter 

Peftiferi 



* Pofteriorum pugna. 
% Praeconis propofitio. 



t Porci pacifci petunt. 



Pugna Porcoruvi. 



119 



* Peftiferi populi, promittit praemia pulchra. 
Pultem pomorum, propinam pulvere pifti 
Piftilli, partem placentas pofterioris, % 

Pccula profundae perquam preciofa paludes. 
Pocum praegrandem placido pro pignore praebet 
Pronulgans plana Porcellos proprietate. 
Praeecturarum pofthac pertingere palmam, 
Porn Porcelli pinxere procemia pacis 
Partculis paribus, pateat pax pofteritati. 
t Poci praelati placido pacto pepigerunt 
Perp'tuam pacem, pofthac praecedere parvos 
Porcdlos Porcos, putri pinguedine plenos, 
Phasoofthac Porcis paffim pugnare pufillis 
Pro p>mis putridis, pro parte pofterioris 
Proveitus pingui, poterint purgare plateas. 
Prolhe poterint pomaria, participare, 
Partir praedas, patulas peragrare paludes 
Proclanaturi Porcelli peclore pleno, 
Poftqiam praeripitur Porcellis per peregrinos, 
Poftqiam percipiunt pede prendi pofteriori. 
X Plauiite Porcelli, plebs preciofa perenni, 
Pirtapace parate procul praeludia pulchra ; 
P)mpas praecipuas, profccenia publica palmae, 
Iirpureos pannos, picturas pendite pulchras 
Pogeniem prifcam Porcellorum perhibentes, 
Kventur platani, priventur pondere pinus, 

Porcellis 

* Profertur pignus pro paftione. 

t Particula pactae pacis. 

% Pompae Porcellorum poft pacem pera<5tam. 



Pugna 
Porco- 



120 



Pugna Porcorum. 



PUGKA 

Porco- 
rum. 



Porcellis paffim pomaria proftituantur, 
Palmarum prorfus plantatio praeripiatur 
Penciula, pro pacta portentur pace parati 
Palmarum pilei, procedat pulchra propago 
Pacificatorum Porcellorum, penetrando 
Planiciem, patriae paffim peragrando platea?, 
Plantae pro pedibus plateatim projiciatur. 
Portetur per praecipuos praeco peramcenus, 
Pacis perfeclor promat praeconia pacis 
Publicitus, prono procumbant poplite Pore, 
Porcellos patriae patronos profiteantur. 
* Porro praecedat potu pincerna, paludis 
Pocula propinans pleniffima : pabula praelens 
Pulmenti putris pro proprietate palati, 
Pro praecone potens paleae piftura paretur 
Proluvies pepli polluti, portio pinguis 
Pleni potoris promentis particulatim 
Pocula praefumpta, praeguftatos patinarurr 
Pullos, perdices, pavos, Porcos piperatos. 
Praeterea patriae per prima palatia perget 
Perfuadens populo Porcellorum pietatem, 
Plaudant Porcelli, portent per plauftra peroneii 
Per patriam patulo progreffu perfpiciantur : 
Piftorum Porci prope piftrinum patiantur 
Perpetuas pcenas, praefervati prope poftes : 
t Perturbent pueri porcos prope percutiendo, 

Propellat 

* Pincerna praecedit praeconem poculo pleniffimo. 
t Porcelli puellarum pollice perfricli procumbant. 



Pugna Porcorum. 



121 



Propellant Porcos pulchrae per penfa puellae, 
Pertractent parvos Porcellos poplite prono 
Procumbent, pilos patientur pectine pe6t.i. 
Plaudite Porcelli, piftorum plangite Porci. 
Piftores pafcant Porcos paftu palearum, 
Percuffos partim pedibus ; per plurima probra 
Partim projeclos petris pugnifque pedeque, 

* Paftores pafcant Porcellos profperitate 
Praecipua, peragrantes prata patentia paffim. 
Poflridie poftquam Porcelli pace potiti, 
Praefumpfere patres proterve pungere paffim 
Praeiia praedictae pugnaa populis perhibentes ; 
Plurima Porcorum penfans praefaga poteftas. 
Propofuit primo palmae praefcribere pondus 
Peftiferae plebi Porcellorum pedetentim 
Propofuit pedites precio pro poffe parare, 
Porcos praedones per pagos perque paludes. 

t Pungentes pecudes promufcide, phamaque 

paffim 
Perfertur, properatque pecus proclive, proinde 
Perficitur pennae procurator peracutus : 
Ponens pugnaces Porcos pecudufque papyro. 
Promittunt pofito pede praefeclis properare 
Praefcripto pugilum pugnam properare parati 
% Praacipuum, prout praecipient princeps pugil- 

efque. Porro 

* Porcorum praefaga penficulatio pro profe&o paranda. 
t Phama praelii. 

J Perfidia praefe6lorum precium praeripientium pugnan- 
tibus. 



Pugna 
Porco- 

KUM. 



122 



Pugna Porcornm. 



PUGNA 

PORCO- 

RUM. 



Porro proventus precii plerifque parantur, 
Praecurrent proceres precii plus percipientes 
Plaeant pollicitis, proh ! propellos peregrinos 
Perfidiam patrant proprioque perm potiores 
Praeftituunt praedas, proponunt poftea plebi 
Perfolvendarum propinarum paraclefin 
Pugnaque protrahitur, porro Porcus philomufus 
Paedotriba pufillorum per parifienfes 
Promotus, pagi paffcor, parochufque paludis 
Paulum perdoctus pariter producere petrum 
Pertreclabatur, proh ! perdita peclora plena 
Perfidiae : pudeat perceptae praemia praedae 
Plebi praeripere peccato perniciofo 
Peccatis, prodet profufa pecunia, prodet, 
Prodet praedones ; poftquam penfent peregrini 
Praemia pro pugna patrata, proque periclis. 
* Perfonuit parochus, pergens proponere plures 
Perfidiae partes : porro princeps pugilefque 
Peftiferum parochum proclamabant perimendum 
Pfeudo-euangelicumque probabant praecipitan- 

dum 
Ponto, praeterea plus proveniffe pericli 
Perfuafu parochi, plus ponderibus pavimenti 
Portae praecelfae, plus pulveribus platearum. 
Proteftabantur pcenis pleclendum pofte patente, 
Ponendum prope prunas, particulifque peruftis 
Profundo puteo profunde praecipitandum, 

Publicitus 

* Propatulatio perfidia per Philomufum. 






Pugna Porcorum. 



123 



* Publicitus pugiles praedicta piacula patrant, 
Plebfque putat pulchrum philomufum perdere 

Porcum 
Proinde preces princeps proponit plebfque parata 
Promittit parere piis precibus, pugilefque. 
t Partiri pergunt propinam : perficiuntque 
Perndiam, pauci prohibent peccata patrari 
Pro placito pugilum, plecti plerique putantur 
Propter perndiam propalatam peregrine. 
Poftquam Porcelli praeceperunt peregrinos 
Privari precio, prolixe penficulando 
% Publicitus propere procurant praemia pugnae, 
Proponi Porcis paganis perfoluturus, 
Proftat praeco potens plures praecurrere Porci 
Praetendunt, prohibetque pedo pluspercipientes. 
Poftquam pelleclii precio Porci peregrini, 
§ Praefidium pugna praebebant praecipitare 
Pugnam pergebant Porci, porro properabant 
Partim pinguiculi, partim putredine pleni 
Provecti plauftris, partim peditis properabant. 
Porro Porcelli praeceperunt peregrinis 
Plauftra penetrando Porcos profternere pingues 
Producique palam pendendos pofte patente. 
|| Propterea peditis prudenter progredientes, 

Perturbaverunt 

* Poena philomun. 

t Porcellorum percipientium perfolutionis perfidiam. 

% Ponitur perfolutio praefentiffima. 

§ Pingues Porci provehuntur plauftris. 

II Praedatio Porcellorum. 



Pugna 
Porco- 
rum. 



124 



Pugna Porcorum. 



PUGNA 

Porco- 
rum. 



Perturbaverunt, projeceruntque potenter 
Plauftrum Porcorum, praedaque f>otente potiti, 
Praecipuos Porcos protraxerunt plateatim. 
Porro Porcorum profpeclo principe primo : 
Praeco potens populo' propinavit perimendum, 
Plectendum poem's pendendum pofte patente. 
Porro pauca petit princeps proferre, priufquam 
Perficiat placitum praeconis plebs pileata, 
Permittuntque parum proponere proinde profa- 

tur ; 
# Parcite Porcelli, proavorum prifca putamur 
Progenies, prifci potuerunt plura parentes 
Praelia pro patria patrare, pericula plura 
Pro populo. perferre pio, pro plebe parati 
Pcenas pauperiemque pati, poffunt pietatem 
Publica phana parentum pyramidefque probare, 
Promeriti pulchre per praemia picta probantur. 
Propterea penfate, preco, penfate periclum, 
Parcite perdendo, pietatem perflcientes. 
Poftquam perfecit princeps praedicla, parumper 
Plorans, percutienfque palam pectus peramce- 

num, 
Profert parcendum ploranti praeco politus 
Propter progeniem, propter praeciofa potentum 
Patrum privilegia, prognatamque profatur 
t Progenie propria princeps praecoque proinde 
Pergunt pacifici populo prope profpiciente, 

Praslatos 
* Precatio principis Porcorum. 
t Pacificuntur principes. 



Pugna Porcomm. 



125 



Prselatos pariter, praelatis participari, 
Partiri praedas : porro promifcua plebes 
Propterea praefert, pateat praelatio prava. 
* Poftquam parturiunt praeclara penaria praedas 
Perficiunt pacem patitur populufque 
Pofteaqnam patuit praerepta pecunia plebf, 
Plangunt privatim procerum praecordia pacem. 
Plectunt perjuro perjuria plura patrantes. 
Propterea Porci, Porcelli plebs populufque, 
Pofthac principibus prohibent producere pug- 
nam 

Perfonavit Placentius poft pocula. 



POTENTISSIMO, PIENTISSIMO PRUDENTISSIMOQUE 
PRINCIPI, 

PATRI PURPURATO, 

PRiESENTI PONTIFICI, 

PLACENTIUS 

PLURIMUM PR^CATUR PROSPERITATIS. 

Perge, pater patriae, patriarum perfice pacem. 
Promereare palam palmam placidiffime prin- 

ceps. # 

PoiTeffae pacis primam perhibe pietatem 
Prifcorum patrum per prudentiffima pacta. 
Pofceritas perget praeconia promere paffim 

Pontifici 
* Populi propofitio potifiima. 



Pugna 

PORCO- 



126 



Pugna Porcorum. 



PUGNA 
PORCO 



Pontifici preciofa pio, plebecula, pubes, 
Primores patriae proclamabunt peramoeno 
Plaufu paftorem pads, pia pe&ora plaudent. 
Phama peragrabit, peragrabit phama polorum 
Per penetralia : praeterea populofa propago, 
Progenies patriae, patres, puerique pufilli 
Proteftabuntur prifcis patribus potiorem. 
Pontificem pileo pretiofo praedominantem, 
Phama penetrabit penetrabit phama paludes 
Perfarum, poterit phoenix proferre perennes 
Pacis particulas, per pontificale paratas 
Praefidium, poflhac penetrabit pax paradifum 
Plebs peregrinorum profpecta pace perenni 
Pacati populi pactum pariforme probabit. 
Publica patronum pacis, privata patenter 
Peclora perpetuo plaufu pariter perhibebunt. 
Prudens pontificis pectus, per plura probetur 
Plectra poetarum, plerique poemata promant 
Praecipuam plerique parentelae probitatem 
Pertractent profa, praeftante poemate prorfus : 
Praecellat princeps pacis, princeps pietatis. 

Poftremo pronunciavit 
Penfa pauperiem, princeps praeclare, poetae. 

FIN^. 



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127 



PR^ECATIUNCULA. 

P. PORCH. 

POETJE. 

Parce, precof, pingui pagellae, parce prudente 

Pugnantium parcemiag 
Parce parum pulchrae piclurataeque poefi, 

Prasfente pictae poculo. 
Phoebo poftpofito placuit profundere plura, 

Praeceps poemaque promere. 
Poftquam potaram, perlegi paucula.puncta 

Pingens, proindeque potinans. 
Perplacuit poto plufquam puerile poema, 

Plerifque perfuadentibus. 
Produxique palam perfcrutandum paradigma 

Pleno probandum poculo. 
Percuffo pluteo puduit puduitque papyri 

Partique pudet poematis. 
Porro potores partim prodire perurgent, 

Partim precantur protinus : 
Praefertimque poteft patronus praecipiendo 

Parva precatus pagina, 
Porcorum populus, Porcellorumque precatur 

Promiscue plebecula, 

Perfectam 



Pugna 
Porco- 
rum. 



128 



Pugna Pcrcorum. 



PUGNA 
POKCO- 



Perfe6tam pugnam perfe6lo ponere prselo 
Propediem placentium. 

Charus Centurio curavit comere chartas 
Cenforem, curae comraifit Chalcographorum. 





CANUM CUM CATIS 
CERTAMEN 

CARMINE COMPOSITUM 
CURRENTE CALAMO 

C. CATULLI CANINII. 



AUCTOR EST HENRICUS HARDERUS. 




ATTORUM canimus x:ertamina clara 
canumque 
Calliope concede chelyn; clariaeque 
Camoenae 
Condite cum cytharis celfo condigna cothurno 
Carmina : certantes canibus committite cattos, 
Commemorate canum cafus cafufque catorum, 
Cumprimis caufas certamina cun&a creantes. 
Currentem cupide cruda cum carne catellum 
Confpexere cati captique cupidine ccenae 
Comprendunt catulum, capiunt coguntque ca- 

rere 
Came, canis clamor complebat compita, cun&i 
Confluxere canes ; conamina cruda catorum 
Conqueritur catulus, captas carnefque cibofque 
9 Commemorat ; 



129 



Canum 

Cum 

Catis 

Certa- 

MEN. 



130 



Canum Cum Catis Certamen. 



Canum 
Cum 
Catis 
Certa- 
men. 



Commemorat ; cunctis cum cognita caufa catel- 

lis, 
Concilium cogunt, canus calvufque culinae 
Cuflos Caftrutio cathedram confcendere celfam 
Ccepit, cumque canum confedit concio, caufa 
Communis, clamdt, comites, commune ciebat 
Confilium : coeunt crudelia corpora catti 
Contrectantque ; canum carnes complentque cu- 

linam. 
Contemnunt catulos ; contemnunt ? cedere co- 
gunt, 
Corpora corripiunt, conteftaturque cicatrix 
Caecilii catuli conamina cruda catorum 
Conniveat caufaque cadat careatque culina 
Clara caterva canum ? citius contendere curfu 
Cum cervo cancer cupiet citiufque canorus 
Cogetur creperis Cygnus cemffe cicadis. 
Cur catulr cur ceffamus ? conjungite caftra, 
Conveniant campo catti, certamine claro 
Contendant cui conveniat cenfura culinae. 
Collaudare canes cani ccepere cerebri 
Confilium, Ceneus cum Caftilione creatur 
Centurio. Cernunt catti crudele cieri 
Certamen, coeunt catti conflantque cohortes. 
Callimedonta caput campi columenque catorum 
Confilium commune creat, curamque capeffit. 
Cumque coegiffent catuli cattique cateryas, 
Certamen campeftre catis campeftre catellis 

Complacuit 



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131 



Complacuit, currere citi clirfuque citato 
Convenere canes, cum confpexere catellos 
Cattorum cuneata cohors, concurrere ccepit 
Candida canenti cum Caftilione Camauce, 
Conculcata cadit clarumque cruore colorem 
Corrumpit, coeunt certamine Cafca Colaxque 
Cafca colorato, candenti corpore Colax, 
Cafca Colaxque cadunt, cams Condoq; Co- 

quoq; 
Captaneus claram cupiens convellere Callam 
Conficitur. Catalina cadit, capiturque Ceraftus 
Cumque Capo Canaus Celebris commilito 

claudi 
Cromvelli, cum ccepiffet contingere caftra 
Crantor corruerat cuncloque cruore carebat 
Confectus curfu, confligit Claudia casco 
Cum Cephalo, curvam Clebuli Caronia caudam 
Convellit. Cum cattorum coeunte caterva 
Colligeret cunctas Canape Chionaea cohortes, 
(Clara canis Canape campo Cuftofque cubilis 
Callimachi,) ccepitque canum convertere curfus 
Corbulo confuetis contritus colla catenis ; 
Certatur, caefis colles campofque cruentant 
Corporibus, colluclantur caudis cubitifque 
Cattorumq ; canumq; cohors, celeberrima 

Cauce 
Cum cedens campo claudo cum crure cucurrit 
Coepiffentque canes cattorum cingere cornu ; 

Currite 



Canum 
Cum 
Catis 

Certa- 
men. 



132 



Ca?ium Cum Catis Certamen. 



Canum 
Cum 
Catis 
Certa- 
men. 



Currite, clamabat Caronia, currite catti, 
Conficimur capimurque, canes ccepere cruenti 
Claufo certantes cuneo circumdare cattos, 
Cernite conftrato cumulata cadavera campo, 
Cernite calcantes cattorum colla catellos : 
Cedamus campum canibus, caufaque cadamus. 
Continuo catti cedunt curfuque citato 
Condita conantur celeres contingere caflra, 
Cum confternari cattos, cum corde carere 
Confpexere canes, conclamavere citoque 
Conglomerata cohors certat contendere curfu 
Cum cattis, capiunt cattorum caftra catofque 
Complures, captos ccenofo carcere claudunt, 
Connexis cruciant caudis cumulantque catenis, 
Centeni cecidere cati, ceffere cruenti 
Centeni, claudit centum cuftodia captos : 
Concinno comitum celebrantes carmine cladem 
Complaudunt catulifque canes, canibufq ; ca- 

telli ; 
Conftituunt certas captivis conditiones : 
Cum canibus coeat cattis concordia : ccenis 
Captivi careant catti, cedantque culina 
Cum coquitur, cineres captent, caleantq ; ca- 

mino 
Cernere contenti completos carne catellos. 
Captivi canibus cito confenfere, canefque 
Carcere confra6lo cum cattis conciliantur. 
Colle cavo comitum congefta cadavera condunt 

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Cattorumq ; canumq ; cohors curantq ; cruentos 
Complexi catulos catti cattofque catelli 
Civili certant cauda, cubitifque cohaerent : 
Cantatur, crudam claudunt convivia caedem, 
Cunftaque compofito ceffat certamine clades. 



Canum 
Cum 
Catis 

Certa- 




Hug- 

BALDI 

Eclo- 

GA. 




HUGBALDI MONACHI 
ECLOGADE LAUDIBUS CALVITII. 

INCIPIT ECLOGA DOMINI HUGBALDI 

MONACHI ELVONENSIS ORD. S. BENEDICT! 

AD CAROLUM CALVUM IMPERATOREM. 

Carmina conviciis cerritus carpere calvos 
Conatus cecinit : celebrentur carmine calvi. 
Confpicuo clari : carmen cognofcite, cuncti. 

Procemium. 

Quo Cam cense invitantur ad laudem calvorum. 

ARMINA, clarifonae, calvis cantate, 
Camcense, 
Comere condigno conabor carmine 
calvos ; 
Contra, cirrofi crines confundere colli. 
Cantica concelebrent callentes clara Camcenae \ 
Collaudent calvos, collatrent carmine clubas 
Carpere conantes calvos, crifpante cachinno, 
Confcendat cceli calvorum caufa cacumen. 
Conticeant cun<5ti concreto crine comati. 
Cerrito calvos calventes carmine cun6tos. 
Confona conjundlim cantentur carmina calvis. 

Cap. I. 




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Cap. I. 

Quod calvities in praefagio futurorum quibufque prove- 
nire videatur. 

Carmina, clarifonae, ca*lvis cantate, Camoenae. 
Cum crefcit calvi capitis cervici corona, 
Confortem cleri confignat confore calvum. 
Capturum claram, Chrifto cedente, Coronam. 
Ceu crines capitis convellens crimina cordis, 
Corde creatorem confpectat, corpore Ccelum, 
Ccelicolas cives cupiens contingere cultu. 
Crimina cum curis condemnat cuncta caducis ; 
Cceli confcenfum, concentum ccelicolarum 
Concupiens cupide, collaudat cuncta creantem. 

Cap. II. 

Calvos Cantores, Abbates etiam, Doctores et Epifcopos 
effe ac Sacercfotes. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate, Camcenae 
Conjubilant calvi celfo clamore canori, 
Continuantque choro, cartas cantare choreas. 
Conformes capiti, Concordes corpore cuncli. 
Complacitas cleri contendunt condere caulas, 
Correpto cornu cceleftia claffica clangunt, 
Conficiuht carum Chrifti cognomine chrifma, 
Confociant cuneo confperfos chrifmate ccetus. 
Concordes caute celebrant convivia ccenae ; 
Confaturant Chrifti con vivas carne, cruore. 

Cap. III. 



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Cap. III. 

Quod calvi Reges fint et Imperatores, Confutes quoque, 
Legiflatores et Judices. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate, Camcenae. 
Conregnant calvi ; confcendunt culmina clari,' 
Confpicui,. comti chryfea cervice corona- 
Clementes cenfu, condunt confulta clientum. 
Cincinnofe, cave ! Condemnant crimina calvi : 
Cenforem calvum cenfuram condere conflat. 
Cordacem calvum cordatum crede cavendum. 
Calventem calvos caecari corpore cenfe.t. 
Calvitium calvi caecatus carpere ceffa ; 
Ceffa cavalftrum, ceffa corrodere, ceffa. 

Cap. IV. 

Quod calvi fint Duces exercitus, ipfi etiam bellatores 
do6li atque robufti. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate, Camcenae. 
Conducunt calvi cuneos certamine claros. 
Compugnant calvi criftati caffide coni. 
Contorquent, crifpant celeres cum caede cater- 

vas. 
Comprendunt cirros, contundunt calce comatos. 
Cufpide confodiunt ; capulo conciffa corufco 
Colla cadunt ; celebrant calvi clamore celeufma. 
Commotus certare, catus certamine calvus. 

Conculcat, 



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137 



Conculcat, caedit. Crinitos cedere cogit. 
Captivos captat, captos cervice coartat. 

Cap. V. 

Laus Calvorum in Experientia artis Medicinae, tam 
Pharmaciae quam Chirurgiae. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate, Camcenae, 
Comperies calvos columen conferre cerebro, 
Comperies calvos capitis curare catharros. 
Comperies calvas caecas curare cavernas. 
Chronica cum cancro ceditque cachexia calvo. 
Cardia cor carpens caffatur, colica ceffat. 
Contreclans chalybem confciffa carne coercet 
Corruptum capitis, co<5ta cervice cruorem. 
Cur complura cano ? Clandeftina cun<5ta caduci 
Corpore confutat, collapfaque corpora curat. 

Cap. VI. 

Inve6lio increpantis adverfus cavillatorem calvos 
convitiantem. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate, Camcenae. 
Corde cavus cirrofe, cave certare creanti. 
Conviciumque creaturae condicere ceffa. 
Condita cun6lipotens caufarum cuncta creator 
Conftituit, curamque cavens conferre creatis, 
Caetera curvavit, clarum confurgere calvi. 
Concedens culmen cui cedere cun<5ta coegit. 
Cerritus cur collatrat clamore canino : 

Condiderat 



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BALDI 

Eclo- 

GA. 



138 



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Hug- 

BALDI 

Eclo- 
ga. 



Condiderat calvum collapfa cucurbita caeno ? 
Conticeat citius caenofa calumnia cujus. 

Cap. VII. 

Item adverfus eundem, et Laus Calvorum de Humilitate, 
caritate et Caftitate. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate, Camcense. 
Complex carnificum, corium convellere calvo 
Cur cenfes ? Cordis convellit crimina calvus. 
Cur cenfes capiti cineres confpergere calvo I 
Cognofcit calvus cineri concrefcere corpus. 
Cur cenfes calido carnes carbone cremari ? 
Corda cremant calvi Chrifti concocta calore. 
Cur cenfes calvum caftrari corpore caftum ? 
Cordetenus cunctis caftratur concito culpis. 
Carmine carnificans calvum, compefce cavillum. 

Cap. VIII. 

Exprobatio carminis ejus, et paradigma de Elifeo 
propheta et pueris illi infultantibus. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis catitate, Camcenae. 
Carminibus caveo Claris conjungere caeca. 
Calcetur coeno calcanda calumnia calce. 
Ccenofus, ccenofa canens, concludito cannam. 
Cenfebis certe cenforum codice cautum 
Clarividium calvum, cui confcia confecutura, 
Commotum catulum circumlatrante cachinno. 
Clamantes ; Confcende citus, confcendito, calve ! 

Condemnaffe 



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139 



Condemnaffe cacos confeftim crimine clarent. 
Convicii, corrofa cadunt cum corpora carptim. 

Cap. IX. 

De egregio calvo Paullo Apoftolo quod a Chriflo vocatus 
cascatus fit, raptus in Tertium Ccelum. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate,Camcenae. 
Carmina calvorum, cumulentur carmine Calvi, 
Confpicui, cujus crudelis cautio caedis 
Conftiterat, Chrifti cultores carnificare. • 

Conjubilent circumfulgente Charifmate calvo, 
Caecato cun6li ! Chrifti clamore citatus, 
Corruerat cito, confoffus ceu cufpide conti ; 
Confeftimque capit confcenfum culmine cceli 
Clarivido cernens confpectu cunctipotentem. 
Confore cor cujus claret ccelefte catinum. 

Cap. X. 

Quod fa&us fit ex perfecutore Prasdicator, et quodComam 
nutrire et turpem vetet proferre Sermonem. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate, Camcenae ; 
Conglomerate choros, calvos cantate choreas. 
Cenfuram celeb rem calvum comfiffe colendum ' 
Comperimus, cceli conful, confulta cavendi 
Crimina confutat, ccenofi cun6ta coercet 
Colloquii ; cun6lis communia commoda cenfet. 
Confindit cirros ; collegia civica condit 
Conciliando confponforum Chrifticolarum 

Corda 



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Hug- 

BALDI 

Eclo- 



Corda ciet, capiti corpus conjungere certans. 
Ceffet cerritus celebres contemnere calvos. 

Cap. XI. 

Alloquitur Camcenas Poeta de Cavillatore infinuans eum 
calvi Regis judicio caecatum. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate, Camcenae. 
Crudelem calvos caffo conamine cunctos 
Carpere conantem compefcite ; crimine captum 
C«nvicii, commentantim commenta caduca. 
Concito conviftum caecis concludite clauftris. 
Calvafter cenfor caecari crimine captum 
Cenfet. Caece canis ceffa contemnere calvum. 
Conquinifce, canis, confingens crimina calvis ! 
Conquinifce, canis, collatrans carmina calvos ! 
Conquinifce, canis, ceffans corrodere, calvos ! 

Cap. XII. 

Epitoma laudis Calvorum a Corporis fitu et pulcritudine, 
et quod calvus Microcofmus fit. 

Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate, Camcenae. 
Concilium clarum calvorum cogere ccetum. 
Cum cernis, calvum cpeli comprendito cyclum, 
Calvitii culmen cceli cognofcito centrum. 
Circuitum Cofmi commendant caetera calvi. 
Calvos confocia, candentes congere calvos, 
Cynthia ceffabit Chryfeos conferre colores, 
Cornua contenebrans cedit concrefcere calvis. 

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Collucent calvi, calvorum caflida candet 
Conrutilans, cceli ceu copia clara corufcat. 

Claufula Carminis. 
Carmina, clarifonae, calvis cantate, Camcenae. 
Conveniet claras clauftris componere cannas, 
Completur claris carmen cantabile calvis. 

Explicit Carmen Hugbaldi Monachi ad Carolum 
de Laude Calvorum. 

The following are additional verfes by the fame poet. 
Carmine, clara, cave calvos calvare, Camcena, 
Crifpa cadat^Dontra caudata Columnia cirro. 
Calvorum Charites cantatae carmine claro 
Conticeant, cum clangenti concita canore! 
Conciderint cceli cum Chrifti culmina cultu. 
Caefareae capides, cauti cata cifta Catonis 
Concludant cleri captantia carmina culpas. 
Carmina, calvorum comtrix, conclude, Camcena. 
Carole, cum calvis, Caefar clariffime, canta 
Crucifero Chrifto clari conamina Cleri. 
Claufa Camcena capit cum Caefare congrua 

curam. 
Comta corona, cave ; cum Caefare condita Calvo 
Caroleos comunt celebrantia carmina calvos. 
Chrifte, caput calvum cum comto contueare, 
Crux cujus cun&is condonant crimina calvis. 

Note. There have been many editions of the De 
Laude Calvorum. The one given is taken from the edi- 

• tion 



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tion of S. F. Corpet, Paris, 1853. The Gothic verfion is 
preferved in Sandy's Macaronic Poetry, London, 1831 ; 
befides which there are various editions known as the 
Edition de la Bibl. Roy., Edition Barth, Edition de Vienne, 
etc., etc. 




$art £cconb* 



MACARONIC POETRY. 




MACARONIC POETRY. 




HE writing of Macaronic Poetry," fays 
Hallam (" Literature of the Middle 
Ages," part II. chap. v. § 17), "is a 
folly with which every nation has been inocu- 
lated in its turn." The molt ancient Maca" 
ronic Poem known to be in exiftence, is one 
entitled " Nobile Vigonce Opus Incipit ; " al- 
though poems, of mingled Greek and Latin, 
occur in Baudius, and although as early as the 
twelfth century, quaint mixtures of Englifh, 
Latin, and French, may be found in the monk- 
ifh writing. 

We have the author's own teftimony that he 
wrote the " Nobile " on the fecond day of 
March, 1494 : — 

Haec ego compofui madii mane die fecundo, 
Mille quater centum eft nos rionaginta quaterque." 

His name, too, he does not feek to conceal, 
faying, at various times : — 

Ipfe ego fum Fqfa, Sec. 
De Fojfa compofitore qui venit Patavia. 
Finit praeclariftimum opus editum per excellentem 
virum dominum Fojfam cremonenfem, &c. 

10 M. Delapierre 



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ronic 
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ronic 
Poetry 



M. Delapierre fets down, with chara6leriflic 
French minutenefs, that this manufcript " Se 
compofe de huit feuillets, non pagine's et fans 
reclames, de 21 lignes a la page. Le ponctu- 
ation eft prefque nulle, il n'y.a que les deux 
points (qui remplacent frequemment la virgule) 
le point de loin et loin, et quelque rares points 
d'interrogation." 

M. Delapierre goes learnedly into the quef- 
tion as to whether this Fossa was Evangelifta, 
or Matteo Foffa, author of the " Galvano In- 
amotarata." Foffa appears to have been a pro- 
lific name, for befides thefe two, ' Giambutifta 
Foffa, nuncio of Pope Paul III., in 1534, Rug- 
giero Foffa, who flourifhed in 1527, and one 
Emilio Foffa, appear to have been not incapa- 
ble of the honor. For this curious Macaronic 
of nearly a thoufand hexameter lines, the 
reader is* referred to M. Octave Delapierre's 
" Macaroniana," London, 1862 (Tire a 250 ex- 
emplaires feulement), where the editor, at page 
14, follows faithfully the text of the edition of 
1502, " Defireux de donner une reproduction 
auffi fidele que poffible d'un poeme fi peu connu, 
quoique l'auteur nous apprene lui meme qu'il 
compofa grand nombre de vers macaroniques : " 

" Per queftum cafum poteris cognofcere Foffam 
Carmina qui fecit macharoniffima multa." 

Chronologically 



Macaronic Poetry. 



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Chronologically next to him, M. Delapierre 
places Barthelemy Bolla. Bolla was born at 
Bergamo early in the fixteenth century, but 
lived moll of his days in England, where, ac- 
cording to M. Libri's catalogue, he was an 
actor, playing the rble of a harlequin. " Je ne 
fuppofe pas," fays Delapierre, "que M. Libri 
ait voulu faire une epigramme, mais il m'a ete 
impoffible de trouver fur quoi il fonde fon opin- 
ion." This author wrote, in Macaronics of his 
native tongue, " Thefaurus Proverbiorum Ital- 
ico- Bergamafcorum rariffimorum et garbatiffi- 
morum, nunquam antea ftampatorum, in gra- 
tiam Melancholiam fugientium, Italicae linguae 
amantium, ad aperiendum oculos editorum," 
given in Delapierre's " Macaroniana," page 52. 
This production of forty-two lines is written in 
couplets, like the following :* — 

Amor di, mere trice, e vin di fiafco • 

La matina bono e la fera guafto. 

Amor meretricis et vinum fiafchi 

In mane eft bonus, et in fero guafti, &c. 

Typhis Odaxius, Tifi degli Odasj, or Oda- 
si, compofed, about the end of the fifteenth cen- 
tury, "Carmen Macaronicum de Patavinis qui- 
busdam arte Majica delufis," 4to, without pag- 
ing, date, catchwords, or fignatures, " Libellus 
longe rariffimus." The work paffed through fev- 

eral 



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ronic 
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eral editions, all of which have difappeared. 
About the fame time appeared " Maccharonea 
varia, diverfis Unguis confcripta, praefertim La- 
tine et caraclere Gothico impreffa ; " fmall 8vo, 
without date. This rare volume, whofe author, 
according to Brunet, was Georgio Aglione d'Afti, 
contains fourteen fmall pieces, of which the firft 
is " Macharonea contra Macharoneam Baffani 
ad fpectabilem D. Baltafarem Lupum aften- 
ftudentem Papiae." The remainder are princi- 
pally farces in Lombard and Piedmontefe verfe. 

In the year 15 16, were firft publifhed at 
Paris, " Fructuofiffimi atque ameniffimi Ser- 
mones," by Gabriel Barlette, a Dominican 
friar. They are written in the loweft Macaronic 
ftyle, one fentence often confifting of two or 
three languages, and mixing ludicrous with feri- 
ous fubjects : not withftan ding which, they paffed 
through feveral editions. 

The firft edition of the well-known work of 
Merlin Coccaie, or Merlinus Cocaius, was at 
Venice in 15 17. The real name of this author 
was Teoflio Folengi (defcended from a noble 
family in Mantua), afterwards a Benedictine 
monk. He was born in 149 1, and died at his 
priory, near Baffano, in 1544, and is popularly 
regarded as the father of Macaronic verfe ; 
though, as has been fhown, he was by no means 

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the firft writer of his clafs.* The complete title 
of his book, as in the edition of 1521, is : — 

Opus Merlini Cocaii, Poetae Mantuani Macaronico- 
rum. Totum in priftinam formam per me Magiftrum 
Acquarium Lodolam op time redactum, in his infra no- 
tatis titulis divifum. 

Zanitonella, quae de amore Tonelli erga Zaninam 
tra&at. Quae conftat ex tredecim Sonolegiis, feptem 
Eclogis, et una Strambottolegia. 

Phantafiae Macaronicon, divifum in viginti quinque 
Macaronicis, tractans de geftis, magnapimi et prudentif- 
fimi Baldi. 

Mofchea facetus liber in tribus partibus divifus, et 
tradlans de cruento certamine mufcarum et formicarum. 

Libellus Epiftolarum et Epigrammatum ad varias 
perfonas direclarum. 

Of Macaronic verfe in general, Folengi fays : 
. Ars ifta poetica nuncupatur ars Macaronica, a Macaron- 
ibus derivata ; qui Macarones funt quoddam pulmentum, 
farina, cafeo, butyro, compaginatum : groffum rude et 
rufticanum. Ideo Macaronica nil nifi groffedinem rudi- 
tatem et Vocabulezzos, debet in fe continere. 

The 

* " Macaronic verfe was invented by one Folgendo, in 
the firft part of the century. This worthy had compofed 
an epic poem, which he thought fuperior to the JEneid. 
A friend to whom he mowed the Ma'caronic paid him 
the compliment, as he thought, of faying that he had 
equalled Virgil. Folgendo, in a rage, threw his poem 
into the fire, and fat down for the reft of his life to write 
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The Italian word, Maccherone, fignifies " a 
pudding-pated fellow." And thofe of Folengi 
were written in a medley of Latin and Italian. 
They contain fome fober maxims expreffed in 
facetious terms ; the high-founding titles of gran- 
dees are turned into ridicule with much addrefs ; 
and the vices of mankind are depicted in fuch 
a jocofe manner, that they may be confidered 
fatires without venom. 

The adventures of Baldus conflitute a mock- 
heroic romance* founded on the exploits of an 
imaginary grandfon of Charlemagne, accompa- 
nied by a trufty knave, a giant, a centaur, &c. 
There have been feveral editions ; the bell is 
that of 1786, two volumes in one, with notes 
and engravings, 4to, Mantua. In the edition of 
1561, many alterations are made, and paffages 
objectionable to particular families omitted. 
There is alfo a French tranflation, of which the 
bed edition is that of 1606. Of the French 
edition of 1734, a few copies were printed on 
vellum. Folengi is fuppofed to have written 
other Macaronic pieces, as the following titles 
appear in a lift of his works at the end of his 
life, annexed tq the edition of the " Opus " of 
1692. " Opufculum aliud verfibus Macaroni- 
cis, cui Titulus : II Libro della Gatta." Also, in 
MS., " Satirae carmine Macaronico : quarum Ti- 
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tulus.Le Gratticie." He alfo compofed a curi- 
ous allegorical poem, " Chaos de Triperuno," 
and feveral other pieces, not Macaronic. His 
" Orlandino," in ottava rima, was publilhed in 
1526, under the feigned name of.Limerno Pi- 
tocco. A copious extract from Merlin will be 
found among the fpecimens. 

In 1526 a fmall and rare book was printed, 
with the title, " Guarini Capella, Macharonea in 
Cabrinum Gogamagogae Regem Compofita, 
multum delectabilis ad legendum, ex fex libris 
diftincta. Arimini, per Hieronymum Soncinum 
Anno Domini 1562," 8vo. Guarina Capella 
was a native of Sarfina, a little town in the Pon- 
tifical States ; his Macaronic is in fix cantos of 
about one hundred and forty lines each, and is 
dedicated to w Guarinus Capellus Sarfinas Mari- 
otto, fuo compagno grandiffimo, S. P. D." 

Antonius de Arena, a lawyer of Avignon, 
who died in 1544, was a celebrated Macaronic 
writer. The beft of his works is confidered to 
be " Meygra Entrepriza tatoliqui Imperatoris, 
quando de Anno D. 1536, veniebat per Pro- 
venfam bene carrozatus, in poftam prendere 
Franfam cum villis de Provenfa, propter groffas 
et minutas gentes rejouire, per Antonium de 
Arena Baftifaufatam — Gallus regnat, Gallus 
regnavit, Gallus regnabit." Avenione, 1537, 

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121110. Bruxellae, 1748, 8vo. Lyon, i76o> 8vo. 
It is fometimes found with the title : " Poema 
Macaronicum : id eft, Hiftoria braviffima Caroli 
Quinti Imperatoris a Provineialibus Payfunis 
triumphanter defbifati, Macaronico carmine re- 
citans, per Joannem Germanem, 1536." 

The book concludes thus : " Scribatum ef- 
tando cum gailhardis Payfanis per Bofcos, Mon- 
tagnos, Foreftas de Provenfa, de anno mille 
cccccxxxvi, quando Imperarius d'Efpagna, et 
tota fua Gendarmeria pro fauta de panibus per 
Vignas roygabant Rafmos, et poll veniebant fort 
bene Acambram fine Crefteris, et candeletis 
d'Apoticaris in Villa de Aquis." It is a pleafant 
fatire on the wars of Charles the Fifth, and was 
fuppreffed by the miniftry of thofe times ; but 
whether it was the fubje<5t of an ex officio informa- 
tion, does not appear. Another work of his, of 
which there have been feveral editions, is, " An- 
tonius de Arena de Bragardiffima villa de Soleriis. 
Ad fuos Compagnones ftudiantes qui funt de per- 
fona friantes, baffas darifas in gallanti ftylo bif- 
ognatas ; cum Guerra Romana et Neopolitana, 
Revolta Genuenfi, Guerra Avenionenfl, et Epif- 
tola ad fallotiffimam fuam garfam Rofeam, pro 
paffando lo tempus allegramente, &c. Stamp, 
in Stampatura Stampatorum, anno 1670." In 
it occurs this celebrated defcription of the 

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Dance : " Quid fit Danfa ? Eft una groffiffima 
confolatio, quam prendunt bragardi homines 
cum bellis garfis five mulieribus, darfando, cho- 
rifando, fringando, balando de corpore gayo et 
frifco, quando meneftrius carlamuairus, floutai- 
rus, juglairus, tamborinairus baffas et hautas 
danfas, tordiones, branlos, martingalas et alias 
fautarellas tocat, fiblat, carlamuat, fifrat, tambo- 
rinat, harpat, rebecat, floutat, laudat, organat, 
cantat de gorgia, de carlamufa clara, de carla- 
mufa furda," &c Annexed to a very old edi- 
tion of A. de Arena, was, " Nova Novorum No- 
viffima, five poemata ftylo Macaronico con- 
fcripta ; quae faciunt crepare leclores et fal- 
tare capras ob nimium rifum, res nunquam antea 
vifa ; compofita et jam de novo magna diligen- 
tia revifata et augmentata par Bartholomaeum 
Bollam, Bergamafcum, Poetarum Apollinem, et 
noftro faeculo alterum Cocaium. Accefferunt 
ejufdem aucloris Poemata Italica, fed ex valle 
Bergamafcorum. Stampatus in Stampatura 
Stampatorum," i2mo, 1670. 

M. Delapierre gives next in order, Jean 
Richard, or Jean Baptifte Lechardus, alfo a 
lawyer, " au Parlement de Bourgogne, ne a Di- 
jon," who writes fomewhere about 1587 a Maca- 
ronic (given in " Macaroniana," page 109), " a 
Poccafion de la defaite de Reitres par le Due 

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de Guife : " " Cagafanga Reiftrofuyffolanf- 
quettorum, per Magiftrum Johannem Baptif- 
tam Lichardum Recatholicatum, Spaliporcinum 
Poetam — Cum refponfo, per Joan Cransfeltum, 
Germanium" (Paris, 1558, 8vo, by Etienne 
Taburat). 

There is a German Macaronic fatire upon the 
ignorance of the monks, in the form of a dia- 
logue, dating about the year 1516. The Ger- 
mans feem to have been only fecond to the 
Italians in this fpecies of literature, probably 
becaufe of their large univerfities, for the Maca- 
ronic has always been a favorite with ftudents. 
The title of one of them points to fuch an ori- 
gin, viz. : " Curio fae inaugurae defputation von 
dem Recht, privilegiis und proeragativen der 
Athenienfifchen Profefforen-Purfchen wider die 
burger purfche und communitater," &c., "in 
diebus canicularibus." 

Perhaps the oldeft German Macaronic poem 
is the ." Floia, Cortum verficole de Flois fuarti" 
bus, illis Deiriculis, quae omnes fere minfchos, 
belruppere et fpitzibus fuis fchraflis fteckere et 
bittere folent. Auctore Gripholde Knickackio 
ex Flolandia," which, fince 1593, has been often- 
reprinted. Another German Macaronic is the 
" De Lufitate Slu&entica." 

The remaining Continental Macaronics of 

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any note are, " Macaronica de fyndicatu et con- 
demnatione D. Samfonis Lethi. Dialogus face- 
tus et fingularis, non minus eridutionis quam 
Macaronices compleclens ex obfcurorum vio- 
rum falibus cribatus," 8vo. 

" Fabula Macharonea, cui titulus eft ; Car- 
nevale. Bracciani apud Andr. Phacum," 1620, 
8vo, by Andrea Bajano. 

" Harenga Macaronica habita in Monafterio 
Cluniacenfi de quinta menfis Aprilis anni 1556 
ad rev. et illuft. Cardinalem de Lotharingia, 
ej.ufdem Monafterii Abbatem Commendata- 
rium, per do6lum Fratrem Vincentium Juftini- 
anum, Genovenfem, General em Ord. Fratr. 
Praedicatorum, deputatum per Capitulum gene- 
rale, una cum certis aliis ejufdem ordinis Fra- 
tribus Ambaffatorem verfus eundem Reveren- 
diffimum ; pro repetenda Corona aurea, quam 
abftulit a Jacobitis urbis Metenfis Rhenis, in 
Campania," 1566, 8vo. 

" Magiftri Stoppini, Poetae Ponzanenfis Ca- 
priccia Macaronica, Illuftriffimo ac Excellentif- 
fimo Domino Jacobo fuperantio Paduae prae- 
feclio. D. Padua, apud Gafparum Ganaffum," 
1638, 8vo. Of this there have been feveral 
editions ; the author, according to Barbier, was 
Cefare Orfini. 

" Cittandus Macaronicus metrificatus, overum 

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de piacevoli converfantis coftumantia, Somnia 
trente quinque." 8vo, 1647, by Parth. Zanclaio. 

" Diclamen metrificum de bello Huguenotico 
et Reiftrorum Pigilamine ad Sodales," by Remy 
Belleau. This piece, containing about two hun- 
dred and fifty lines, grotefquely portrays the 
ravages committed by the foldiery in time of 
war. It is printed with the burlesque poem, 
" L'Efchole de Salerne, a Paris, 1650." The 
publifher fays of it : " Au refte, on en doit faire 
d'autant plus d'eftime, que c'eft le feule Poeme 
de cette nature que nous avons en noftre lan- 
gue ; car ceux d'Antoine de Arena approchent 
plus de Provencal que du Francois, et ceux de 
Merlin Coccaye font Italiens." 

" Recitus veritabilis fuper Efmeuta teriblii 
Payfanorum de Ruellio a Jano Caecilio Fray." 
s. A. 

" Epiftola Macaronica Arthufii ad D. de Pa- 
rifiis fuper atteflatione fua, juftificante et nitr- 
dante Patres Jefuitas." s. a. 

"Epitaphia honorandi Magiftri noftri Petri 
a, Cornibus." Paris, 1542, 8vo. 

" Carmen arenaicum de quorundam nugiger- 
olorum piarTa infupportabili." 

Englifh Manufcript Macaronics of the fix- 
teenth and feventeenth centuries abound, for 
the mania which fpread over the Continent, 

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found its devotees alfo in Britain. In the Brit- 
ifh Mufeum * there is a curious manufcript fatire 
on Prieftcraft. In the " Nugae Venales " (ed. 
1720, i2mo) there are four fhort Macaronic 
pieces, which mare the defect unfortunately too 
common in the generality of Macaronic poetry 
— grofs, coarfe witticifms, and loud allufions. 

Before turning exclufively to Englifh Macaro- 
nics, it may be as well to quote here a pretty 
French one, given by Moliere, in the troifieme 
intermede of " Le Malade Imaginaire," where 
Argan, the invalid, is to be admitted a doctor : 

Quatrtime Dofteur. — .... Si non ennuyo dominum 
Proefidem 
Docliffimam Facultatem, 
Et totam honorabilem 
Companiam ecoutantem, 
Faciam illi unam quoeftionem. 
Des hiero maladus unus 
Tombavit in meas manus ; 
Habet grandam fievram cum redoublamentis, 
Grandam dolorem capitis, 
Et grandum malum au cote, 
Cum granda" difficultate 
Et pena a refpirare, 
Villas mihi dire, 
Docle Bacheliere, 
Quid illi facere ? 

Argan. 

* Vid. MSS". Harl. No. 3362. MSS. Arundel. No. 
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Argan. — Clyfterium donare, 
Poftea feignare, 
Enfuita purgare. • 

Cinq. Dofi. — Mais ft maladia 
Opiniatria 
Non vult fe garire, 
Quid illi facere ? 

Argan. — Clyfterium donare, 
Poftea feignare, 
Enfuita pourgare ; 
Refeignare, repurgare et reclyfterifare. 

Choeur. — Bene, Bene, bene, bene refpondere ; 
Dignus, dignus eft intrare 
In noftro do6lo corpore, &c. 

Among Englifh Macaronic writers figure the 
names of Skelton, Drummond of Hawthorn- 
den, Thomas Coryate; George Ruggle, Edward 
Benlowes, the two William Kings, Thomas 
Sheridan, Alexander Geddes, Felix Farley, and 
Tom Difhington. 

"The earlieft collection of Englifh Chrift- 
mas carols fuppofed to have been publifhed," 
says Hone in his " Every-Day Book," " is 
only known from the laft leaf . of a volume 
printed by Wynkyn Worde, in 152 1. There 
are two carols upon it ; one, ' A Carol of 
Huntynge,' is reprinted in the laft edition of 
Juliana Berner's ' Boke of St. Albans ; ' the 
other, 'A carol of bringing in the Boar's Head,' 

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is in Dibdin's edition of ' Ames,' with a copy of 
the carol, as it is now fung in Queen's College, 
Oxford, every Chriftmas Day." Dr. Blifs of 
Oxford alfo printed on a meet, for private dif- 
tribution, a few copies of this, and Anthony 
Wood's verfion of it, with notices concerning 
the cuftom, from the handwriting of Wood and 
Dr. Rawlinfon, in the Bodleian Library. The 
verfion fubjoined is from a collection of feven 
carols imprinted at London, " in the Poultry, 
by Richard Kele, dwelling at the long ihop 
vnder Saynt Myldrede's Chyrche," about 1546, 
and is an example of the old ftyle : — 

A CAROL BRINGING IN THE BORE'S HEAD. 
Caput apri defero 
Reddens laudes Domino. 
The bore's heed in hande bring I, 
With garlands gay and rofemary, 
I pray you all fynge merelye 
Qui eftis in convivio. 

The bore's heed I underftande 
Is the thefte fervice in this lande, 
Take wherever it be fande, 

Servite cum cantico. 
Be gladde lordes both more and kffe, 
For this hath ordeyned our ftewarde, 
To cheere you all this Chriftmane, 
The bore's heed with muftarde. 

Caput apri defero 

Reddens laudes Domino. 

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Another verfion of this laft verfe is : — 

Our fteward hath provided this 
In honor of the King of Blifs : 
Which on this day to be ferved is, 
In Regimenfi Atrio. 

Caput apri defer o 

Reddens laudes Domino. 

In this ftyle, the Macaronic is not neceffarily- 
a burlefque performance. Dan Shakefpeare 
himfelf has a Macaronic — as what has he not? 
— in his Book : — 

Affection is not rated from the heart, 

If love hath touched you, naught remains but to 

Redime te captum quam queas minimo. 

• Taming of the Shrew, i. I. 

At a later day, Byron's " Maid of Athens " 
is Macaronic ; and fome of Profeffor Longfel- 
low's fongs : e. g. his " Blind Bartimeus," 
" Death of the Old Year," &c, are of like char- 
acter. 

In Du Cange's " Gloffarium " is the defcrip- 
tion of a curious ceremony called the " Feaft 
of Affes," popular in the South of France about 
the thirteenth century. The account favors of 
blafphemy to modern ears ; but in the early 
day, when the Miracle Play fupplied the fpec- 
tacular entertainment of the people, it was not 
only tolerated, but encouraged by the Church. 

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The theme was the " Flight into Egypt," and 
the mummery was accompanied by the celebra- 
tion of High Mass. The H Hymn " always 
fung upon thefe occafions was a Macaronic 
compofition of French and Latin, and, as it is 
thought worthy of prefervation as a relic, is in- 
ferted here, as follows : — 

Orientis partibus 

Adventavit afinus 

Pulcher et fortiffimus, 

Sarcinis aptiffimus. 
Chorus. — Hez fire afnes, car chantez ? 
Belle bouche rechignez ? 
Vous aufez du foin affez, 
Et de l'avoine a plantez. 

Lentus erat pedibus, 
Nifi fbret baculus, 
Et eum in clunibus 
Pungeret aculeus. 
Chorus. 

Hie in collibus Sichem, 
Jam nutritus fub ruben : 
Tranfiit per Jofdanem, 
Saliit in Bethlehem. 
Chorus. 

Ecce magnis auribus, 
Subjugalis filius, 
Annus egregius, 
• Afinorum dominus. 
Chorus. 

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Saltu vincit hinnulosj 
Damas et capreolos ; 
Super dromedarios 
Velox medianeos. 
Chorus. 

Aurum te Arabia, 
Thus et myrrhum de Saba, 
Tulit in eqclefia 
Virtus afinaria. 
Chorus. 

Dum trahit vehicula 
Multa cum farcinula, 
Illius mandibula, 
Dura terit pabula. 
Chorus. 

Cum ariftis horde urn 
Comedit et carduum : 
Triticum e palea, 
Segregat in area. 
Chorus. 

Amen dicas, afine, 

[Hie genufleftebatur, ) 
Jam fatur de gramine : 
Amen, amen, itera, 
Afpernare vetera. 
Chorus. — Hez va ! hez va ! hez va hez ! 
Biax fire afnes car allez ? 
Belle bouche car chantez ? 

In " The Armory of Byrdes," " Imprinted at 
Londo, by John Wyght, dwellfg* in Poules 

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Churchyarde at the fygne of the Rofe," about 
the year 1509, a work attributed to Skelton, is 
the following : — 

The Cocke dyd fay 

I ufe alway 

To crow both firft and laft : 

Like a Poftle I am, 

For I preche to man, * 

And tell hym the nyght is paft. 

" I bring new tydynges 
That the King of all Kings 
In tactu profudit chorus : 
Then fang he mellodious 

Te Gloriofus 
Apoflolorum chorus.'" 

The following is a very old Nurfery Ballad : 

THE FOUR BROTHERS. 

I had four brothers over the fea ; 

Perrimerri dictum, Domine : 
And each one fent a prefent to me, 
Partum quartum, peredecentum, 

Perrimerri dictum, Domine : 

The firft fent a cherry without any Hones ; 

Perrimerri dictum, Domine : 
The fecond a chicken without any bones ; 
Partum quartum, peredecentum, 

Perrimerri di<5tum, Domine. 

The third fent a blanket without any thread ; 

Perrimerri di<5tum, Domine : 
The fourth fent a book that no man could read ; 
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When the cherry 's in the bloffom, it has no flones ; 

Perrimerri dictum, Domine : 
When the chicken 's in the egg, it has no bones ; 
Partum, quartum, peredecentum, 

Perrimerri dictum, Domine. 

When the blanket 's in the fleece, it has no thread ; 

Perrimerri dictum, Domine : 
»When the book 's in the press, no man it can read ; 
Partum quartum, peridecentum, 

Perrimerri dictum, Domine. 

" Love's Labor Loft " has much Macaronic 
dialogue : — 

Nath. — "Very reverent fport, truly ; and done in the 
teftimony of a good confcience. 

Hoi. — The deer was, as you know, fanguis, — in 
blood ; ripe as a pomewater, who now hangeth like a 
jewel in the ear. of ccelo, — the fky, the welkin, the heaven ; 
and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra, — the 
foil, the land, the earth. 

Nath. — True, Mafter Holofernes, the epithets are 
fweetly varied, like a fcholar at the leaft : but fir, I affure 
ye, it was a buck of the firft head. 

Hoi. — Sir Nathaniel, haud credo. 

Dull. — 'Twas not a haud credo : 'twas a pricket. 

Hoi. — Most barbarous intimatiori ! yet a kind of in- 
finuation, as it were in via, in way, of explication ;facere, 
as it were, replication, or, rather, ojientare, to fhow, as it 
were, his inclination, — after his undreffed, unpolifhed, 
uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather unlettered, 
or rathereft, unconfirmed fafhion, — to infert again my 
haud credo for a deer. 

Dull. — I faid the deer was not .a haud credo, 'twas a 

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Hoi. — Twice-fod fimplicity, bis cocTus ! — O thou mon- 
fter Ignorance, how deformed doft thou look ! 

— Love's Labor Lojl, iv. 2. 

Indeed, it is curious to fee how far a little 
Latin will go. Said Addifon (" Spectator," No. 
21), — " The natural love of Latin, which is fo 
prevalent in our common people, makes me 
think that my fpeculations fare never the worfe 
among them for that little fcrap which appears 
at the head of them • and what the more en- 
courages me in the ufe of quotations in an un- 
known tongue, is, that I hear the ladies, whofe 
opinion I value more than that of the whole 
learned world, declare themfelves in a more 
particular manner pleafed with my Greek mot- 
toes ! " 

Skelton, who was Poet Laureate about the 
end of the fifteenth century, fays, in his " Boke 
of Colin Clout " : — 

Of fuch vagabundus 

Speaketh totus mundus, 

How fome fyng let abundus, &c. 

Cum ipfis et illis 

Qui manent in villis 

Ell uxor vel an cilia, 

Welcome Jacke and Gilla, 

My pretty Petronilla, 

An you will be ftilla 

You mail have your willa, &c. 

In " Harfnett's Detection " are fome humor- 
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ous lines, being " Sir John of Grantam's curfe 
for the miller's eeles that were ftolne " : — 

All you that ftolen the miller's eeles, 

Laudate dominum de ccelis, 

And all they that have confented thereto, 

Benedicamus domino. 

This is fomething like Dominie Sampfon's in- 
terview with Meg Merrilies : " Sceleratijfima ! 
which means, Mrs. Margaret ; conjuro te ! that 
is, I thank you heartilly ; Exorcifo te / that is, 
I have dined." 

Wharton* after mentioning Cocciae and de 
Arena, fays : " I have gone out of my way to 
mention thefe two obfcure writers, with fo much 
particularity, in order to obferve that Skelton, 
their contemporary, probably copied their man- 
ner ; at leaft to mow that their Angular method 
of verfrfication was at this time fafhionable, not 
only in England, but alfo in France and Italy. 
Nor did it ceafe to be remembered in Eng- 
land, and, as a fpecies of poetry, thought to be 
founded by Skelton, till even as late as the 
clofe of Queen Elizabeth's reign, as appears 
from the following poem on the Spanilh Ar- 
mada, which is filled with Latin words : — 

A Skeltonical falutation, 
Or condigne gratulation ; 
And juft vexation, 

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Of the Spanifh nation ; 
That in a bravado 
Spent manv a crufado, 
Sending forth the Armado 
England to envado," &c. 

Dunbar, a Scottifh poet of the fifteenth cen- 
tury, occafionally employed this ftyle j his " Tef- 
tament of Mr. Andrew Kennedy,''" which is 
written in the ftyle of an idle, dhTolute fcholar, 
has almoft every alternate line compofed of the 
formularies of a Latin Will, fhreds of. the 
breviary, mixed with what the French call 
" Latin de cuifme" * and is given at length 
among the " Specimens." 

In " An Anfwere to a Romifh Rime," &c, 
printed by Simon Stafford, 1602, is the follow- 
ing fong, faid to be probably of the time of 
Henry VIII. ("Cens. Liter." vol. viii. p. 368) : 

A MERRY SONG, AND A VERY SONG. 

Sofpitate pickt our purfe with Popifh illufio, 
Purgatory, fcala coeli, pardons cum jubilio, 
Pilgrimage gate, where idoles fate with all abominatio, 
Channon, fryers, common lyers, that filthy generatio, 
Nunnes puling, pretty puling, as cat in milke-pannio ; 
See what knaverie was in monkerie, and what fuperftitio ; 
Becking, belling, ducking, yelling, was their whole religio, 
And when women came unto them, few went fine filio, 

But 

* See A nc. Scottifh Poem s, Edinburgh, 1770, p. 35, and 
the notes thereto, where the editor fays that Dunbar's 
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But Abbeyes all are non downe fall, Dei beneficio, 
And we doe pray, day by day, that all abominatio 
May come to defolatio. — Amen. 

There are a few Macaronicifms in a poem at 
the end of " Leland's Itinerary," vol. vi., being 
an account of a fight between the fcholars and 
townfmen at Oxford, February ioth, 1354, and 
two following days, begun at Swyndolneftock, 
or Swindleftock Tavern \ many of the former 
being there killed, for whofe death the town 
was afterwards punifhed. There are alfo fome 
in Coryat's " Odcombian Banquet," and in his 
" Crambe," or " Colwarts ; " likewife in the 
" Poems Lyrique, Macaronique, Heroique," &c, 
of Henry Bold of New College, Oxford, after- 
wards of the Examiner's Office in Chancery, 
publifhed 8vo, London, 1664. 

An amufing fpecimen is given in Percy's 
" Reliques " (vol. iii. p. 374), addreffed to a 
friend of Mr. John Grubb, of Chriffc Church, 
Oxford, urging him to print Mr. Grubb's poem, 
called " The Britilh Heroes, or the Second Part 
of St. George for England." It is Ihort enough 
to be inferted here : — 

Expojiulatiuncula live Qiierimoniimcula ad Antonium 
(Atkerton) ob Poema Jo/iannis Grubby Viri rov izaw 
ingenioffiffimi in lucem nondum editi. 
Toni ! Tune fines divina poemata Grubbi 
Intombed in fecret thus "ftill to remain any longer, 
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Grubbe, tuum nomen vivet dum nobilis ale-a 

Efficit heroas, dignamque heroe puellam. 

Eft genus heroum, quos nobilis efficit ale-a, 

Qui pro niperkin clamant, quaternque liquoris, 

Quern vocitent Homines Brandy, Superi Cherry Brandy, 

Saepe illi long-cut, vel fmall-cut flare tobacco 

Sunt foliti pipos. Aft fi generofior herba 

(Per varios caufas, per tot difcrimine rerum) 

Mundungas defit, turn non funcare recufant 

Brown paper tofta, vel quod fit arundine bed-mat. 

Hie labor, hoc opus eft heroum afcendere fedes ! 

Aft ego quo rapiar ? quo me feret entheus ardor, 

Grubbi, tui memorem ? Divinum expande poema. 

Quae mora ? quae ratio eft, quin Grubbi protinus anfer 

Virgilii Flaccique fimul cantat inter olores ? 

Dr. William King, in the beginning of the 
laft century, publifhed a fatirical work on the 
fcientific proceedings of the Age, called " Ufe- 
ful Tranfactions in Philofophy, and other forts 
of learning." In one portion of this treatife, 
profeffing to be an account of " Meurfieus, his 
Book of the Plays of the Grecian Boys," he 
gives the following burlefque tranflation of 
' Boys, boys, come out to play," as a quotation, 
from his Greek author : — 

KvfifiETe fxei(3oiec, Met/3o^f KVfj,fiere Txlaietv : 
Muvrj Loaoppirac $7}j3epet,, roira vovva diai, 
KvfifieTe cvv ovtto), aw lovdu KV[xfj.ere navlo), 
AevoETE ovmrepav, Meiftoieg, Aevaere (3e66ov, 
2w tolc: KOfipaidvoiv evi aTprireaat 7rAaovrec. 

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Drummond's " Polemo-Middina," * is a well- 
known work, and its celebrity has no doubt 
been increafed from the circumftance of Bifhop 
Gibfon's having, in his earlier days, publifhed 
an edition with Latin notes (Oxford, 1691, 4to). 
William Drummond, poet, and alfo fomething 
of an hiftorian, was the fon of Sir John Drum- 
mond of Hawthornden; he was born in 1585, 
and died in 1649. His, the earlieft regular 
Britifh Macaronic poem, was probably written 
when Drummond was on a vifit to his brother- 
in-law, at Scotflarvet, and contains a ludicrous 
account of a battle between Lady Scotflarvet, 
under the title of Vitarva, and Lady Newbarns 
as Neberna, with their refpectiye dependants. 
There is an edition by Meffrs. Foulis of Glaf- 
gow, 1768 ; and it is alfo to be found in the 
collection hereafter mentioned, " Carminum ra- 
riorum Macaronicum delectus." It opens 
thus : — 

Nymphae, quae colitis highiffima monta Fifcea 
Seu vos Pittenwema tenent, feu Crelia, crofta 
Sive Anftraea domus, ubi nat haddocus in undis, 
Codlineufque ingens, et fleucca et fketta perrerant 
Per coftam et fcopulis Lobfter manifootus in undis 
Creepat et in mediis ludit Whitenius undis : 
Et vos Skipperii, foliti qui per mare breddum 
Valde procul lanchare foras, iterumque redire, 

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Linquite Skellatas botas, Shippafque picatas, 
Whiftlantefque fimul fechtam memorante bloodaeam, 
Fechtam terribilem, quam marvellaverat omnis 
Banda Deum, quoque Nympharum Cockelfhelearum, 
Maia ubi flieepifeda, et folgofifera Baffa * 
Swellant in pelago, cum Sol bootatus Edenum 
Poftabit radiis madidis et fhoutibus atris. 

Prefixed to Ruggles's capital jeu d'efprit 
" Ignoramus," one fcene of which will be found 
among the fpecimens toward the end of this 
volume, are thefe lines by Dulman : — 

IN LAUDEM IGNORAMI. 

Non inter plaios gallantos et bene gaios, 

Ell alter bookus defervat qui modo lookos, 

O Lector friendleie, tuos ; hunc buye libellum, 

Atque tibi wittum, tibi jeftaque plurima fellam. 

Hie eft lawyerus fimul hie eft undique clerus, 

Et Dulman merus (quod vis non credere verus); 

Hie multum Fxenchum quo poflis vincere wenchum ; 

Hie eft Latinum, quo poflis fumere vinum. 

Hunc bookum amamus, fimul hunc et jure profamus; 

Qui non buyamus, cuncti fumus Ignoramus. 

Ignoramus himfelf thus recites how he will 
endow his miftrefs, Rofabella. This is the mar- 
riage fettlement : — 

VERSUS LEGALES DE ROSABELLA. 

Ignoramus. 
Si poffem, vellem pro te, Rofa, ponere pellem ; 
Quicquid tu vis, crava, et habebis fingula brava ; 

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Et dabo fee fimple, fi monftras Love's pretty dimple, 

Gownos, filkcoatos, kirtellos et petticoatos, 

Farthingales biggos, ftomacheros et periwiggos, 

PantofHos, cuffos, garter os, Spanica ruffos, 

Bufkos et fuccos/tifanas, et Cambrica fmockos, 

Pimpillos, purfos, ad ludos ibis et urfos, 

{Anglice bear garden.) Ann on haec funt bona in lege. 

Rofabella. 
Euge, optima ! 

Among the Specimens will be found a fliort 
fcene from this play, containing a humorous 
burlefque of, the old Norman Law Latin, in 
which the elder brethren of that profeffion ufed 
to plead, and in which the old Reporters come 
down to the Bar of to-day ; if, indeed, that ven- 
erable abfurdity can be caricatured. It would 
be rather difficult to burlefque a fyftem that 
provided for a writ de pipa vini carrianda, i. <?., 
" for negligently carrying a pipe of wine ! " 

In the " Univerfity Snowdrop," publifhed in 
Edinburgh by the fludents of the Univerfity, in 
1838, there is a Macaronic poem entitled " Frof- 
tiledos, or the Wars of the Quadrangle." In 
" Notes and Queries " for September 13, 1869, 
about one third of this poem is given, which 
will be found among the Specimens at the end 
of this volume. 

But the great Englifh Macaronic writer is Dr. 
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died in 1802. His productions of this kind 
are : — 

1790. Epiflola Macaronica ad Fratrem de 
iis quae gefta funt in nupero DirTentientium 
Conventu, Londini habito, prid. id. Feb. 1790, 
4to, pp. 21.* 

Epiftola Macaronica, &c, with an Eng- 

lifh verfion for the ufe of the ladies and country 
gentlemen, 4to, pp. 30. 

1795. Ode PindaricoSapphico-Macaronica, 
in Guglielmi Pitti, &c, laudem. " Morning 
Chronicle," Jan. 13.* * 

tranflation of the above. Ditto, Jan. 30. 

1800. Bardomachia, Poem a Macaronica-Lat- 
inum, 4to, pp. 14. 

Bardomachia, or the Battle of the Bards ; 

tranflated from the original Latin, 4to, pp. 16. 

(The two laft are defcriptive of a battle, cele- 
brated at the time, between two rival authors, 
in a bookfeller's fhop.) 

Dr. Geddes fays : " It is the characteriftic of 
a Macaronic poem to be written in Latin hex- 
ameters j but fo as to admit occafionally ver- 
nacular words, either in their native form, or 
with a Latin inflection ; other licenfes, too, are 
allowed in the meafure of the lines, contrary to 
the Uriel: rules of profody." 

It 
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It is under this broad refervation that Dr. 
Geddes, probably, would excufe his departures 
from his own rule, as exemplified in the fpeci- 
men hereafter printed. 

In the year 1801, a collection was printed, 
not publifhed, under the fuperintendehce of Dr. 
A. Duncan. It is entitled, " Carminum rario- 
rum Macaronicorum delectus, in ufum ludorum 
Apollinarium," Edinburgh, 1801, 8vo, and in- 
cludes feveral clever claffical jeux d'efprit^ but 
fcarcely anything ftricrtly Macaronic, except the 
" Polemo-Middinia ; " and a burlefque Diploma 
for Dr. William Sutherland, which will be found 
among the Specimens further on. 

Like all claffic (fie) methods, time has" dete- 
riorated the Macaronic. In modern times, 
newfpapers and periodicals will now and then 
become refponfible for verfes like thefe : — 

Parvus Jacobus Horner 

Sedebat in corner, 
Edens a Chriftmas pie ; 

Inferuit thumb 

Extraherit plum, 
Clamans, Quid fliarp puer am I. 

Parvula Bo-peep 

Amifit her fheep, 
Et nefcit where to find 'em ; 

Defere alone 

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And what fchoolboy has not written in his 
dog-eared grammar alongfide of — 

Steal not this book my honeft friend 
For fear the gallows may be your end ; 
For if you do, the Lord will fay, 
Upon the awful Judgment day,' 
Where is that book you flole away ? 

fome fuch Macaronic as — . 

Si quifquis furetur 
Th'is little libellum 
Per Baccham, per Jovem 
I'll kill him, I'll fell him 
In venturum illius 
I'll flick my fcalpellum, 
And teach him to fleal 
My little libellum ! 

I have elfewhere remarked that Epitaphs are 
the richeft repofitories of quaint and curious 
diction, and endeavored to fuggeft an explana- 
tion of the fact. In Northallerton Churchyard, 
England, is the following Macaronic : — 

M. S. 

Hie jacet Walter Gun, 

Sometime landlord of the Sun ; 
Sic tranfit gloria mundi ! 

He drank hard upon Friday, 

That being an high day, 
Took his bed, and went dead upon Sunday ! 

The Uriel: rule, for an Englifh Macaronic, 
would require that it fllould confift of the ver- 
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nacular made claffical with Latin terminations, 
and with the employment of Latin idioms and 
particles, all to be fung in " the long roll of the 
hexameter," as Tennyfon calls it ; but, as will 
be feen from the fpecimens hereto appended, 
the rule is as much honored in the breach as in 
the obfervance. 

In a letter to the " New York Evening Pofl," 
I quoted at length that very clever fpecimen, 
entitled "The Death- of the Sea Serpent," com- 
mencing, — 

Arma virumque cano, qui firft in Monongahela, &c, — 

which called forth the following letter : — 

Providence, July 14, 1869. 
To the Editors of the " Evening Pojl" : — 

Having feen the article on " Macaronic Verfe " in your 
iffue of the 9th ultimo, I am induced to fend you the ac- 
companying poem, believing it never to have fallen under 
the eye of your well-informed contributor. 

It was written by a young lady about nineteen years 
of age, a patient of ©r. Barrows of this city. 

She has been afflicted for the laft nine years with fpiral 
hyfteria. Among the many curious phenomena attendant 
upon her cafe, her poetical effufions are moft wonderful, 
as this Latin poem will prove. She has written articles 
in French equally correct, though fhe has never ftudied 
either language; They were compofed about feven years 
ago, while in a ftate of mental aberration, entirely uncon- 
fcious of what fhe was doing. 

It has been a matter of very great wonder to every 
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gard it as a feat of mnemonics. If the latter, no one has 
yet been able to difcover the author. 
I remain, yours, very refpeclfully, 

A Physician. 

Sed tempus neceffit, and this was all over, 
Cum illi fucceffit another gay rover, 
Nam cum navigaret, in his own cutter 
Portentum apparet, which made them all flutter. 

Eft horridus anguis which they behold ; 
Haud dubio fanguis within them ran cold ; 
Trigenta pedes his head was upraifed 
Et corporis fedes in fecret was placed. 

Sic Terpens manebat, fo fays the fame joker, 
Et fefe ferebat as ftiff as a poker ; 
Tergum fricabat againft the old ligh'thoufe ; 
Et fefe liberabat of fcaly detritus. 

Tunc plumbo percuflit, thinking he hath him, 
At ferpens exfiluit full thirty fathom ; 
Exfiluit mare with pain and affright, 
Conaius abnare as faft as he might. 

Neque illi fecuti — no, nothing fo rafh, 
Terrore funt multi, he'd make fueh a fplafli, 
Sed nunc adierunt, the place to infpecl, 
Et fquamus viderunt, the which they collect 

Quicunque non credat aut doubtfully rails, 
Ad locum accedat, they'll (how him the fcales. 
Quas, fola trophsea, they brought to the fliore. 
Et caufa eft ea they couldn't get more. 

I agree with my friend the phyfician, to whom 
I am indebted for a curious fpecimen, that " it 
is a matter for great wonder," but I cannot in- 
cline to believe that the production, which has 

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confiderable merit as a Macaronic, was compofed 
by his patient. Indeed the poem, " Death of 
the Sea Serpent," juft alluded to, is almoft 
identical in theme, and by its exiftence proves 
that the wags and wits of the day (about thirty 
years ago, or thereabouts) were bufy poking fun 
at what was then their laft fenfation. The two 
poems are undoubtedly contemporaneous in 
their origin. They both treat of a "fea fer- 
pent," which in both is defcribed as " horridus 
anguis" and makes the blood of the boat's crew 
congeal with fear — " haud dultio" That " no 
one has yet been able to difcover the author," 
proves nothing, as nobody has ever difcovered 
the author of fully one half of thefe little nugce 
canorce that float around in the newfpapers. The 
probabilities flrongly are, that the young lady 
had feen the verfes in an old newfpaper, during 
a lucid interval, or heard them repeated in her 
prefence ; and that, as the Doctor fuggefts, the 
affair was an interefting feat of mnemonics. 

Dr. O. W. Holmes has invented a Macaronic 
verfe of his own ; it is found in that medley of 
good things, " The Autocrat of the Breakfaft 
Table: — 

ESTIVATION. 
In candent ire the folar fplendor flames, 
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His humid front the cive, anheling wipes, Maca 

And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes. Poetry 

How dulce to vive occult to mortal eyes, 
Down on the herb with none to fupervife ; 
Carp on the fuave berries from the crefcent vine, 
And bibe the flow from longicaudate kine. 

To me, alas ! no verduous vifions come, 
Save yon exiguous pools conferva-fcum ; 
No conclave vaft repeats the tender hue 
That laves my milk-jug with celeftial blue. 

Me wretched, let me curr to quercine fhades, 
Effund your.albid haufts, lactiferous maids ; 
Oh ! might I vole to fome umbrageous clump, 
Depart, be off, exceed, evade — erump \ 

In Mr. Godfrey Leland's "Breitmann Bal- 
lad," " Schnitzerl's Philofopede," there are oc- 
casional Macaronic verfes, as follows : — 

" Adfum Dominie Breitmann ! 
Herr Captain — Here I pe ! 
So dell me right honefte 
Quare inquietafti me ? 
Te video inter fpoonibus 
Et largis glaffis too 
Cerevifia repletis, 
Sicut percuffus tonitru ! " 

Denn Breitmann anfver Schnitzerl : 
" Coar&or nimis — fee 
Siquidem . Phil iftiim 
Pugnat adverfum me. 

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Ergo vocavi te, 
Am Saul vocavit Sam- 
uel ut mi oftenderes 
Quid teufel faciam ? " 

Den der fhpirit in Lateinifch 

Saidt " Bene — dat's de dalk ! 

Non habes in hoc fhanty 

A mingle et fome chalk ? 

Non video inkum et calamos : 

(I fhbofe fome bummer Ihdole 'em) : 

Levate oculos tu«s, fon 

Et afpice ad linteolum ! " 

All thefe Breitmann Ballads, which have be- 
come defervedly popular in Europe and Amer- 
ica, are effentially Macaronic poems. 

Macaronics are not neceffarily made up of 
different languages. ' They are often compofed 
of dialecls, patois, and argots. I give here what 
is confidereda literary curiofity — not becaufe 
it is intelligible, for what it means is a conun- 
drum of as impoffible folution as the old one 
about the fize of John Rogers's family — but be- 
caufe it is curious. During the reign of James 
II., the Scottifh kings had grown, under the im- 
portation of Norman manners, afhamed of and 
anxious to conceal their Gaelic or Irifh origin ; 
and hence to eradicate its traces in their lan- 
guage. In Pinkerton's " Scottifh Poems " there 
is a Macaronic fatire upon this native jargon (as 

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it was then confidered) of Englifh, interfperfed 
with the obnoxious and (at prefent) untranflata- 
ble dialect. 

THE RUKE CALLIT THE BARD. 

Sa come the Ruke, with a rerde and a rane roch 
A bard out of Ireland with banochadee ! 
Said : Glunton gucl: dynydrach halla mefchtey-doch ; 
Reke here a rug of the roft or fcho fall ryve thee ! 
Mifch makmoryach mach momitur moch loch ; 
Set her doun, gif her drink, what deil aytes ye ? 
O'Dermyn, O'Donnall, O'Dochardy Droch ; 
Ther are the Ireland, Kings of the Erchye ; 
O, Knewlyn, O'Conoguhor, O'Grere, McGrane, 

The Chenachy, the Clarfha'ch, 

The Benefchene, the Ballach, 

The Krekrye, the Corach, 

Scho Kennis thameilkane. 

A more intelligible one of this kind, is, — 

LOVE AND MURDER. 

Gently o'er the meadows prigging, 

Joan and Colin took their way ; 
While each flower the dew was fwigging, 

In the jocund month of May. 

Joan was beauty's plummieft daughter, 

Colin, youth's moft knobby fon; 
Many a nob in vain had fought her, 

Him, full many a fpicy one. 

She, her faithful bofom's jewel 
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But. alas ! her guv'nor cruel 
Said as how he'd never fight. 

Soon as e'er the lark had rifen 
• They had burft the bonds of fhooze, 
And, her daddle linked in hif 'n, 
Gone to roam as lovers ufe. 

In a crack, the youth and maiden 

To a flowery bank did come, 
Whence the bees cut, honey laden, 
. . Homeward, with melodious hum. 

Down they fquatted them together, 
" Lovely Joan," faid Colin bold, 
" Tell me, on thy davy, whether 

Thou doft dear thy Colin hold ? " 

" Don't I, juft ! " with look ecftatic, 
Cried the young and ardent maid. 

" Then let's bolt," in tone emphatic, 
Bumptious Colin quickly faid. 

" Bolt," fhe faltered, " from the guv'nor ? 
O, my Colin, that won't pay ; 
He will ne'er come down, my love, or 
Help us, if we run away." 

" Shall we, then, be difunited? " 
Wildly fhrieked the frantic cove; 

" Mulled our happinefs, and blighted 
In the kinchin bud our love ? " 



No, my tulip; let us rather 
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Thus we'll gum your cruel father, 
Cutting from the world our Rick." 

Thus he fpake, and drew a knife out, 

Sharp of point, of edge full fine ; 
Pierced her heart, and let the life out ; 

" Now," he cried, " here's into mine V* 

Another 

* TOPSIDE GALAH. 

(A navy officer has furnifhed Harper's Magazine 
with Longfellow's familiar poem " Excelfior," done into 
" Pigeon Englifh," — the dialect in ufe between the Chi- 
nefe and Englifh, or Americans, — which we* copy below, 
Chop chop, means M very faft; " majkee, " don't mind ; " 
chop belong, " of a kind ; " topfide galah, " excelfior," or, 
" hurrah for topfide ; " chin-chin, " good bye ; " welly 
culio, u very curious; " Jofs pidgin man, " prieft." The 
Chinefe ufe / in place of r, as loom for " room/' cly for 
" cry," &c.) 

That nightee teem he come chop chop 
One young man walkee, no can flop ; 
Colo mafkee, icee mafkee ; 
He got flag ; chop b'long welly culio, fee — 
Topfide Galah ! 

He too muchee folly ; one piecee- eye 
Lookee fharp — fo fafhion — alia fame mi : 
He talkee largee, talkee ftlong, 
Too muchee culio ; alia fame gong — 
Topfide Galah ! 

Infide any houfee he can fee light, 
Any piecee loom got fire all light ; 
He look fee plenty ice morerfiigh, 
Infide he mouf he plenty cly — 
Topfide Galah ! 

"No 



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Another Macaronic of this nature, to tranf- 
late which copious affiftance is in requifition 
from the Rogues' Lexicon, is to be found in the 
" Nocles Ambrofianae : " — 

• THE 



" No can walkee ! " olo man fpeakee he : 
" Bimeby lain come, no can fee ; 

Hab got water welly wide ! " 

Mafkee, mi muft go topfide — 
Topfide Galah ! 

" Man-man," one galo talkee he ; 
" Wliat for you go topfide look-fee ? " 
" Nother teem," he makee plenty cly, 
Mafkee, alia teem walkee plenty high — 
Topfide Galah ! 

" Take care that fpilum tlee, young man, 
Take care that icee ! " he no man-man, 
That coolie" chin-chin he good-night ; 
He talkee, " mi can go all light " — 
Topfide Galah ! 

Jofs pidgin man chop chop begin, 
Morning teem that Jofs chin-chin, 
No fee any man, he plenty fear, 
Caufe fome man talkee, he can hear — 
Topfide Galah ! 

Young man makee die ; one largee dog fee 
Too muchee bobbery, findee he. 
Hand too muchee colo, infide can flop 
Alia fame piecee flag, got culio chop — 
ie Galah ! 

■Harper's Magazine, 1869. 



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THE ROGUE'S BALLAD. 

As from ken to ken I was going 
Doing a bit on the prigging lay ; 

Who mould I meet but a jolly blowen, 
Who was fly to the time o' day. 


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I pattered in flam, like a covey knowin', 
" Any bob or grubby, I fay ? " 
" Lots o' gatter," quoth fhe, " are flowin' ; 
Lend me a lift in the family way." 




" You may have a crib to flow in, 

Welcome, Pal, as the flowers in May," 
To her ken at once I go in, 

Where, in a corner out of the way — 




With his fmeller a trumpet blowing, 
A regular fwell-cove lufhy lay; 

To his dies my hooks I throw in, 
Collar his dragons, and clear away. 




Then his ticker I fet a-going 

With his onions, chain and key ; 

Next flipt off his bottom clo'ing, 
And his gingerbread topper gay. 




Then his other toggery flowing, 
All with the fwag, I fteal away ; 
" Tramp it, tramp it, my jolly blowen, 
Or be grubbed by the beaks we may ! 




And we fhall caper a heel and toeing, 
A Newgate hornpipe fome fine day, 

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With the mots their ogles throwing, 
And old Cotton humming his pray, 

With the mots their ogles throwing, 
And old Cotton humming his pray, 

And the faggle hunters doing, 
Their morning fake in the prigging lay. 

Then, too, there can be Macaronic combina- 
tions of popular and technical language, as the 
following : — 

ODE TO MY "ANALYTICAL." 

Charming chaos, glorious puddle, 

Ethics opaque, book of blifs ; 
Thro' thy platitudes I waddle, 

O thou fubtle fynthefis ! 

To thy foft confideration, 

Give I talents, give I time ; 
Though " perpetual occultation " 

Shuts from me thy balmy clime. 

As unto the fea-toffed trader, 

Is the guiding Polar liar ; 
Thou'rt my " zenith " and my " nadir," 

Still " fo near and yet fo far." 

Sancho never loved his gravies 

As I love thy funny face ; 
Sheep-bound mafter-piece of Davies, 

Benefactor of his race ! 



Man nor god, not even " ox-eyed 
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My " enthymeme," my fweet " protoxide," 
Thou'rt the " zeugma " of my heart. 

. When were built the rocks azoic, 
Sat'ft thou on the granite hill ; 
And with conftancy heroic, 
To me thou art "azoic" ftill. 

My " fyzygy," I'll ne'er leave thee, 
Thou fhalt ne'er from me efcheat ; 

I will cherish thee, believe me, 
Pythagorean obfolete. 

Blefs me in the midnight watches, 
Ever by my pillow keep • 

Ruler, chalk, and black-board fcratches, 
Lovely night-mare, while I fleep. 

Be " coordinate " forever, 

Forever my " abfciffa " be ; 
The Fates can overwhelm me never, 

Whilfl thou art in " perigee." * 

According to this wide view of the fubje<5t, 
Burns's poetry is all Macaronic, fince he fings 

entirely 

* " The foregoing burft unbidden from the breaft of a 
certain Junior, while dreaming over the dog's - eared 
pages of Davies' Analytical — juft one year ago. Now, 
from the exalted campus of the Senior year, he rededi- 
cates it to the Juniors he beholds wriggling in the meflies 
of the net that once held him by the gills, with the hope, 
that when it fhall have done with them, they will feel as 
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entirely in combinations of Englifti and the 
Scots dialects ; but it would be a ftartling inno- 
vation to clafs Robert Burns among the Maca- 
ronic poets. 

There can be Macaronics of letters, too, as 
well as of dialects. Witnefs the following : — 

TO MISS EMMA VEE. 

O, M A V, O M A V, 

I've fallen in love with U ; 
Sleep to my foul is N E me, 

And nothing can I do. 

§ O, pray be kind enough to try 
If you can't love again ; 
O, deareft, deign to caft U R I 
On me, and eafe my pain. 

Believe me, M A, when I fay 

I dote to that X S, 
I N V even that pet J, 

Which U fometimes car S. 

Ure J is fond, too, which I know 

He does S A to prove, 
And he can talk, I grant, but O 

He cannot talk of love ! 

Though many other girls I know 

(And they R fair I C), 
Yet U X L them all — and fo 

I love but M A V. 

M A, my love can ne'er D K, 
Except when I fhall die ; 

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And if Ure heart muft fay me nay, 
Juft write, and tell me Y, &c. 

• Figures, too, have been drafted into the 
Macaronic fervice. In the Orpheus C Kerr 
papers appears this fpecimen, which was placed 
over the remains of a foldier of the famous 
" Mackarel Brigade : " — 

MUGGY JIM, 

A MACKAREL FIFER, 

LATE OF THE N. Y. FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

TAKEN SICK 

OF INDIGESTION, 

HE COMMENCED TO 

THROW UP FORTIFICATIONS, 

AND DIED OF STRATEGY. 

• 

HIC JACET 

15 4 

O4128, 
04 I 2 o; 

o 2 88, 

o 2 45 4. . 

" The verfe," fays the narrator, " had to be 
written in figurative language, to get it all on 
the narrow headboard." In all its eulogy of that 
quiet ileep in which there are no anticipations 
to" be unfulfilled, no gluttony to make fick, and 
no Confederate army to worry and affail, the 
verfe will be plain to all, as reading, — 

HERE 



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HERE LIES 

ONE FIFER. 
Nought for one to wait, 

Nought for one to figh/or ; 
Nought too weighty ate, 

Nought to fortify for. 

Dr. Whewell, " Billy Whittle," as they ufed to 
call him at Oxford, becaufe it was fo much 
eafier to whittle his name than to pronounce it, 
wrote the following in a young lady's album : — 

U o a o but I o u, 
O'onoo but O o me ; 
O let not my o a o go, 
But give o o I o U fo ! . 

which, being ^ciphered, — . 

• 

You figh for a cipher, but I figh for you, 
O figh for no cipher, but O figh for me ; 
O let not my figh for a cipher go, 
But give figh for figh, for I figh for you fo ! 

Somebody once afked M. Victor Hugo if he 
could write Englilh poetry. " Certainement," 
replied the infallible ; and, fitting down, deliv- 
ered himfelf of the following : — 

Pour chaffer le fpleen 
J'entrai dans un Inn 
O, mais je bus le gin, 
God fave the queen ! 

which is Macaronic Englilh, certainly. 

But the era of the Macaronic has gone by 

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forever. There are no Macaronic authors now- 
a-days like the flippery Foffa, or Dr. Geddes. 
They flill are got in colleges and univerfities ; 
but everything pertaining to college life is 
ephemeral, coming in with Frelhman and going 
out at Senior. But the mifcellaneous reader 
will light upon them occafionally. In " The In- 
nocents Abroad : or the New Pilgrim's £rog- 
refs," by Mr. Mark Twain, he quotes a letter 
written by his friend Mr. Blucher to the Paris 

landlord : — 

Paris, le 7 Juillet. 

Monsieur le Landlord : Sir, — Pourquoi don't you 
mettez fome favon in your bed-chambers ? EJi-ce-que 
vous penfez I will fteal it ? La nuit paffee you charged 
me pour deux chandelles when I only had one ; hier vous 
avez charged me avec glace when I had none at all ; tout 
les jours you are coming fome frefh game or other on me, 
mais vous ne pouvez pas play this favon dodge on me 
twice. Savon is a neceffary de la vie to anybody but a 
Frenchman, etje Vaurai hors de cette hotel or make trouble. 
You hear me — Allous. 

Blucher. 

" I remonftrated," fays Mr. Twain, " againft 
the fending of this note, becaufe it was fo mixed 
up that the landlord would never be able to 
make head or tail out of it ; but Blucher faid 
he gueffed the old man could read the French 
of it,, and average the reft." 

END OF PART II. 



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SELECTIONS OF MACARONIC POETRY. 



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FROM THE 

PHANTASM MACARONICS 

OF 
THEOPH. FOLENGI (MERLIN COCAIUS). 




MACARONICA PRIMA. 

CEANUM patrem Sol defcendendo 
petebat, 
Ponitur in puncro Regalis ccena de- 
bottum, 
Grande pignatarum murmur fonat intra coqui- 

nam, 
Et faciunt fguatari quidquid cocus annuit illis, 
Alter figatos coclos tirat extra padellam, 
Alter odorifero zeladiam gingere fpargit, 
Alter Anedrottos pingui brottamine guazzat, 
Alter de fpedo mira trahit arte fafanos, 
Hie polaftxorum caldarum fpiccat ab igne, 
Quos alter guftat, digitos leccando, fub ala. 
Ipfe molam faxi circa menare frequentat, 
Laeva miniflerio, dextra et intenta labori, 
Manduleufque fapor lapidis collatur ab ic~tu. 
Ille trahit furno graffa de carne guazettum, 

Quern 



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Quern pevero fpargit Vehetum ftriccando fa- 

chettum. 
Interea menfas crudis, coctifque falatis 
En caricant centum famuli, centumque Ra- 

gazzi. 
Corpora medefimo geftant veftita colore, 
Scilicet ex panno cuncti dobbantur azzuero, 
Perque coloratas albefcunt lilia veftes, 
Talibus his armis quoniam Rex Francifer ufat. 
Circum ftringantur fcuderi more Todefco : 
Inchinos faciunt reverend fronte galantos. 
Semper habendo caput nudum, curvofque zeno- 

chios, 
Sed quia Francorum fuerat tunc Regis ufanza, 
Quod folus comedit, tamen ob Guidonis amo- 

rem 
Non ufum facit, at menfae loca prima petivit, 
Inque caput tabulae fulvo radiabat in auro. 
Ad dextram Regina manum veneranda fedebat 
Contra quam Guido fie Rege jubente recumbit. 
Baldovina fuum quae condere nefcit amorem, 
Injuffa ex templo Guidoni vadit apreffum, 
Et ficligna foco junxit mefchina puella. 
Maxima turn fequitur longo ordine turba Baro- 

num. 
Quifque menare cupit nimia pro fame ganaffas, 
Namque labor gioftrge fecit padire budellas. 
Cuncta fuper menfas portant hinc inde Ragazzi. 

Ante 



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Ante Sinifcalchi valdunt, diverfa comandant, 
Et fcorozzati canibus dant calcibus urtos. 
Trenta tajatores non ceffant rumpere carnes, 
Difmembrare ocas, pernices, atque capones. 
Ex intraverfo pupiones mille tajantur, 
Sed difquartantur per longum mille fafani, 
Furcinutas ficcant in cervellatibus, atque 
Smenuzzant illos gladio taliante frequenter ; 
Saspe bonos robbant tamen hi tajando bocones, 
Atque caponorum pro fe culamina fervant. 
Poffc mangiamentum Aleffi, fuccedit Aroftu-s, 
Cervatti, Lepores, et quicquid Caccia mittit. 
Copia louzarum, Porcorum graffa capretti, 
Quajotti, vel quos trapolarunt Retia turdos. 
His mandularum niveos junxere fapores, 
Nee dapibus varidi mancavit Salfa colore, 
Nee fuccus citri, nee acerbi mufta Naranci. 
Haec ego dum memoro fluitat faliva per ora. 
Praeterea ex amito Tortae venere bianco, 
Tortae de pomis, de faro deque bifellis, 
Mox tortellorum varia de forte piatti, 
Candidus occultat quOs zuccarus, atque faporat, 
Poft epulas graffas confectio plurima fertur. 
Morfelada, Anices pignoles, marzaque panis, 
Et piftacchia nihil (fcis caufam) congrua Gallis. 
Cuncla Sinifcalchis menfas funduntur in am- 

plas. 
Apponunt phialas, cuncti cui gloria vini, 

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Malvafia datur, patrum non abfque fapero : 

Qui dixere ignem, fie fie fmorzarier igne. 

Non ibi mancarunt, quos ftriccat Somma ra- 

cemi : 
Somma decus Napolis, fed magna? crapula Ro- 

mae. 
Orphana montagna haec, quae vinum* nomine 

Gregum 
Parturit, ut faciat per treffum andare brigatam. 
Quatuor accedunt cantores Rege jubente, 
Qui velut ufantur Francefi, gutture pleno 
Cantavere duos fub gorghizando motettes. 
Inde fonatores pifarorum quinque valenti, 
Trombonefque duo pariter frifolere comenzant. 
Quos omnes cernis rubeas gonfiare ganaffas, 
Difcurrunt digitis hue illuc pectore faldo, 
Qui nunquam docli floppando foramina fallant 
Subfeguitant, Arpae, Citharae, dulcefque Leutti, 
Arpicorda, Lirae, Violaa, buxae quoque flauti 
Hoc Baldovinae pro fomite pectus abrufat, 
Scitque minus Guido cordis reperire quietem. 
Non contentus amor quod vifu junxerat ambos, 
Sed facit illorum danzando tangere palmas ; 
Namque comenzarunt Francefo more Baletti, 
Cum Baldovina Guido dartzavit unhoram. 
Non ibi mancarunt manuum ftricatio, nutus, 
Frigiditas cordis ; fufpiria dupla, calores. 
Victor amor centum pharetras exhaufit in illos. 
Denique fupra venit groffis Nox plena tenebris. 



THE TESTAMENT 



Mr. ANDRO KENNEDY. 

From Ancient Scottifh Poems from Bannatyne MS. 
Edinburgh, 1770. 




MASTER Andro Kennedy, 

A (matre) quando fum vocatus, 
Begotten with fum incuby, 
Or with fum freir infatuatus ; 
In faith I can nocht tell redely, 

Unde aut ubi fui natus, 
Bot in truth I trow trewly, 

Quod fum diabolus incarnatus. 



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II. 



Cum nihil fit certius morte, 

We man all de' quhen we haif done ; 
Nefcimus quando, vel qua forte, 

Nor blynd allane wait of the mone. 



Ego 



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maca- Ego patior in pe<5tore, 

RONIC . 

Poetry Throw nicht I mycht nocht ileip a wink ; 

Licet aeger in corpore, 

Yet wald my mouth be watt witl\ drink. 

in. 
Nunc condo teftamentum rheum, 

I leif my faule for evirmair, 
Per omnipotentem Deum, 

Into my lordis wyne-cellar ; 
Semper ibi ad remanendum 

Till domefday cum without diffiver, 
Bonum vinum ad bibendum 

With fweit Cuthbert that lufit me nevir. 

IV. 

Ipfe eft dulcis ad amandum, 

He wuld oft ban me in his breth, 
Det mihi modo ad potandum, 

And I forgaif him laith and wreth. 
Quia in cellar cum cervifia, 

I had lever ly baith air and lait, 
Nudus folus in camifia, 

Than in my lordis bed of ftait. 

v. 
Ane barrel being ay at my bofum, 
Of warldly gude I bad na mair ; 

Et 



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Et corpus meum ebriofum, Maca- 

I leif unto the town of Air, Poetry 

In ane draff midding for evir and ay, 
Ut ibi fepeliri queam, 

Quhair drink and draff may ilka day 
Be caftin fuper facie m meam. 

VI. 

I leif my hairt that nevir wes ficker, 

Sed femper variabile, 
That evermair wald flow and flicker, 

Conforti meo Jacobo Wylie : 
Thoch I wald bind it with a wicker, 

Veriim Deum renui ; 
Bot and I hecht to turne a bicker, 

Hoc pactum femper tenui. 

VII. 

Syne leif I the beft audit I bocht, 

Quod eft Latinum propter cape, 
To the heid of my kin ; but waite I nocht, 

Quis eft ille, than fchro my fkape. 
I tald my Lord my heid, but hiddill, 

Sed nulli alii hoc fciverunt, 
We wer als fib as feif and riddill, 

In una filva quae creverunt. 

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VIII. 

Maca- Quia mea folatia 

Poetry They were bot lefingis all and ane, 
Cum omni fraude et fallacia. 
I leive the maifter of San6t Anthane, 
William Gray, fine gratia, 
My ain deir cufine, as I wene ; 
Qui nunquam fabricat mendacia, 
But quhen the Holene tree growis grene. 



IX. 

My fenyeing, and my fals winning, 

Relinquo falfis fratribus ; 

For that is God's awin bidding, 

Difparfit, dedit pauperibus. 

For men's faulis they fay and fing, 

Mentientes pro muneribus ; 

Now God give thaime ane evill ending, 

Pro fuis pravis operibus. 

x. 

To Jok the fule, my foly fre 

Lego poft corpus fepultum ; 

In faith I am mair fule than he, 

Licet oflendo bonum vultum. 

Of corne and cattell, gold and fie, 

Ipfe habet valde multum, 

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And yit he bleiris my lordis ee, Maca- 

Fingendo eum fore ftultum. Poetry 



XI. 

To Maifter Johney Clerk fyne, 

Do et lego intime 

God's braid malefone, and myne ; 

Nam ipfe eft caufa mortis meae. 

Wer I a doig and he a fwyne, 

Multi mirantur fuper me, 

Bot I fould gar that lurdoun quhryne, 

Scribendo dentes fine D. 

XII. 

Refiduum omnium bonorum 

For to difpone my Lord fal haif, 

Cum tutela puerorum, 

Baith Adie,. Kittie, and all the laif. 

In faith I will na langer raif, 

Pro fepultura ordino 

On the new gyfe, fa God me faif 

Non ficut more folito. 

XIII. 

In die meae fepulturae, 

I will have nane but our awin gang, 

Et duos rufticos de rure 

Berand ane barrell on a ftang, 

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Maca- Drinkand and playand cap-out ; even 

RONIC _,. _ , . 

Poetry Sicut egomet folebam. 

Singand and greitand with the ftevin, 
Potum meum cum fletu mifcebam. 



XIV. 

I will no preiflis for me fing, 

Dies ille, dies irae ; 

Nor yet na bellis for me ring, 

Sicut femper folet fieri ; 

But a bag-pyp to play a fpring, 

Et unum ale-wifp ante me ; 

Infteid of torchis, for to bring 

Quatuor lagenas cervifiae, 

Within the graif to fett, fit thing, 

In modum crucis, juxta me, 

To fie the feyndis, than hardly fing 

De terra plafmafti me. 

William Dunbar. 





IGNORAMUS. 
Actus I. — Scena III. 

Argumentum. 

Ignoramus, clericis fuis vocatis Dulman & Pecus, amo- 
rem fuum erga Rosajbellam narrat, irridetque Mu- 
seum quafi hpminem academician. 

Intrant Ignoramus, Dulman, Pecus, Mus^eus. 

Igno. Phi, phi : tanta preffa, tantum crou- 
dum, ut fui pene trufus ad mortem. Habebo 
actionem de intrufione contra omnes etfingulos. 
Aha Mounfieurs, voulez voz intruder par joint 
tenant ? il eft playne cafe, il eft point droite de 
le bien feance. O valde caleor : O chaud, 
chaud, chaud : precor Deum non meltavi meum 
pingue. Phi, phi. In nomine Dei, ubi funt 
clerici mei jam? Dulman, Dulman. 

Did. Hie, Magifter Ignoramus, vous avez 
Dulman. 

Igno. Meltor, Dulman, meltor. Rubba me 
cum towallio, rubba.- Ubi eft Pecus ? 

Pec. Hie, Sir. 

Igno. Fac ventum, Pecus. Ita, lie, fie. Ubi 
eft Fledwit ? 

Dul. Non eft inventus. 

Igno. Ponite nunc chlamydes veftras fuper 
me, ne capiam frigus. Sic, fie. Ainfi, bien 

faia 



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fai(5t. Inter omnes pcenas meas, valde laetor, et 
gaudeo nunc, quod feci bonum aggreamentum 
inter Anglos noftros : aggreamentum, quafi ag- 
gregatio mentium. Super inde eras hoyfabimus 
vela, et retornabimus iterum erga Londinum : 
tempus eft, nam hue venimus Octabis Hillarii, 
et nunc fere eft Quindena Pafche. 

Dul. Juro, magifter, titillafti punctum legis 
hodie. 

Igno. Ha, ha, he ! Puto titillabam. Si le 
nom del granteur, ou grante foit rafed, ou inter- 
lined en faicl: pol, le faicl: eft grandement fufpi- 
cious. 

Dul. Et nient obftant, ft faicl: pol, &c, &c. 
Oh illud etiam in Covin. 

Igno. Ha, ha, he ! 

Pec. At id, de un faicl: pendu en le fmoak, 
nunquam audivi titillatum melius. 

Igno. Ha, ha, he ! Quid tu dicis, Mufaee ? 

Mus. Equidem ego parum intellexi. 

Igno. Tu es gallicrifta, vocatus a coxcomb ; 
nunquam faciam te Legiftam. 

Dul. Nunquam, nunquam : nam ille fuit 
Univerfitans. 

Igno. Sunt magni idiots, et clerici nihilo- 
rum, ifti Univerfitantes : miror quomodo fpen- 
difti tuum tempus inter eos. 

Mus. Ut plurimum verfatus fum in Logica. 

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Igno. Logica ? Quae villa, quod burgum eft 
Logica ? 

Mus. Eft una artium liberalium. 

Igno. Liberalium ? Sic putabam. In nom- 
ine Dei, ftude artes parcas et lucrofas : non eft 
mundus pro artibus liberalibus jam. 

Mus. Deditus etiam fui amori Philofophiae. 

Igno. Amori ? Quid ! Es pro bagafchiis et 
ftrumpetis ? Si cuftodis malam regulam, non es 
pro me, furfum reddam te in manus parentum 
iterum. 

Mus. Dii faxint. 

Igno. Quota eft clocka nunc ? 

Dul. Eft inter octo et nina. 

Igno. Inter octo et nina ? Ite igitur ad man- 
forium noftrum cum baggis et rotulis. — Quid id 
eft ? videam hoc inftrumentum ; mane petit, 
dum calceo fpectacula fuper nafum. O ho, ho, 
fcio jam. Haec indentura, facta, &c. inter Rog- 
erum Ratledoke de Caxton in comitatu Breck- 
nocke, &c. O ho, Richard Fen, John Den. O 
ho, Proud Buzzard, plaintiff, adverfus Peake- 
goofe, defendant. O ho, vide hie eft defalta 
liters ; emenda, emenda : nam in noftra lege 
una comma evertit totum Placitum. Ite jam, 
copiato tu hoc, tu hoc ingroffa, tu Univerfitans 
truffato fumptoriam pro jornea. 

\Exeunt Clerici. \ 
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Ignoramus folus. 
Hi, ho ! Rofabella, hi, ho ! Ego nunc eo ad 
Veneris curiam letam, tentam hie apud Torcol : 
Vicecomes ejus Cupido nunquam ceffavit, donee 
invenit me in baliva fui: Primum cum ama- 
bam R'ofabella mnifi parvum, mifit parvum 
Cape, turn magnum Cape, et poll, alias Capias 
et pluries Capias, & Capias infinitas; & fie 
mifit, tot Capias, ut tandem capavit me utlega- 
tum ex omni fenfu et ratione mea. Ita fum 
ficut mufca line caput ; buzzO' & turno circum- 
circa, et nefcio quid facio. Cum fcribo inftru- 
mentum, fi femina nominatur, fcribo Rofabel- 
lam ; pro Corpus cum caufi, corpus cum cauda ; 
pro Noverint univerfi, Amaverint univerli ; pro 
habere ad rectum, habere ad lectum ; et fie 
valto totum inftrumentum. Hei, ho ! ho, hei, 
ho! 





VIRI HUMANI, SALSI ET FACETI, 

GULIELMI SUTHERLANDI, 

MULTARUM ARTIUM ET SCIENTIARUM DOCTO 
RIS DOCTISSIMI, 

DIPLOMA* 

BIQUE gentium et terrarum, 
From Sutherland to Padanarum, 
From thofe who have fix months of 
day, 
Ad Caput ufque Bonae Spei, 
And farther yet, fi forte tendat, 
Ne ignorantiam quis praetendat, — 
We Doctors of the Merry Meeting, 
To all and fundry do fend greeting, 
Ut omnes habeant compertum, 
Per hanc praefentem noftram chartam, 
Gulielmum Sutherlandum Scotum, 
At home per nomen Bogfie notum, 

Who 
* This Diploma was written by William Mellon, A. 
M., who was Profeffor of Philofophy in the Marifchal 
College, Aberdeen, about the beginning of the laft cen- 
tury. It has been publifhed in different editions of his 
poetical works, which are now, however, very rarely to 
be met with in the fhops of the bookfellers, being alto- 
gether out of print. 
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Who fludied ftoutly at our College, 
And gave good fpecimens of knowledge, 
In multis artibus verfatum, 
Nunc factum effe docloratum. 
Quoth Prefes, Strictum poft examen, 
Nunc efto Doctor ; we faid, Amen. 
So to you all hunc commendamus, 
Ut juvenem quern nos amamus, 
Qui multas habet qualitates, 
To pleafe all humors and aetates. 
He vies, if fober, with Duns Scotus, 
Sed multo magis fi fit potus. 
In difputando juft as keen as 
Calvin, John Knox, or Tom Aquinas. 
In every queftion of theology, 
Verfatus multum in trickology ; 
Et in catalogis librorum 
Frazer could never Hand before him ; 
For he, by page and leaf, can quote 
More books than Solomon ere wrote. 
A lover of the Mathematicks 
He is, but hates the hydroftatics, 
Becaufe he thinks it a cold ftudy, 
To deal in water clear or muddy. 
Do&immus eft medicinae, 
Almoft as Boerhaave or. Bellini. 
He thinks the diet of Cornaro, 
In meat and drink too fcrimp and narrow, 

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And that the rules of Leonard Leffius 

Are good for nothing but to ftrefs us. 

By folid arguments and keen 

He has confuted Dodlor Cheyne, 

And clearly proved by demonftration, 

That claret is a good collation, 

Sanis et aegris, always better 

Than coffee, tea, or milk and water ; 

That cheerful company, cum rifu, 

Cum vino, forti, fuavi vifu, 

Guftatu dulci, ftill has been 

A cure for hyppo and the fpleen ; 

That hen and capon, vervecina, 

Beef, duck and parties, cum ferina, 

Are good flomachics, and the beft 

Of cordials, probatum eft. 

He knows the fymptoms of the phthifis, . 

Et per falivam fees difeafes. 

Affirmat lufum alearum, 

Medicamentum effe clarum, 

Or elfe a touch at three-hand ombre 

When toil or care our fpirits cumber, 

Which graft wings on our hours of leifure, 

And make them fly with eafe and pleafure. 

Aucupium et venationem, 

Poft longam nimis potationem, 

He has difcovered to be good 

Both for the ftomach and the blood, 

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^o A nic As fr e q uent exercife and travel 

Poetry Are good againft the gout and gravel. 

He clearly proves the caufe of death 
Is nothing but the want of breath, 
And that indeed is a cfffafter, 
When 'tis occafioned by a plafter 
Of hemp and pitch, laid clofely on 
Somewhat above the collar bone. 
Well does he know the proper dofes 
Which will prevent the fall of nofes, 
E'en keep them qui privantur illis, 
^Egre utuntur confpicillis. 
To this, and ten times more, his fkill 
Extends when he could cure or kill. 
Immenfam cognitionem legum 
Ne prorfus hie filentio tegam, 
Cum fociis artis, greafe his fifl 
Torquebat illas as you lift. 
If laws for bribes are made, 'tis plain, 
They may be bought and fold again ; 
Spectando aurum, now we find 
That Madam Juftice is ftone blind, 
So deaf and dull in both her ears, 
The clink of gold fhe only hears ; 
Nought elfe but a loud party fhout 
Will make her ftart or look about. 
His other talents to rehearfe, 
Breviffime in profe or verfe, 

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To tell how gracefully he dances, 

And artfully contrives romances ; Poetry 

How well he arches, and moots flying 

(Let no man think that we mean lying), 

How well he fences, rides, and fings, 

And does ten thoufand other things ; 

Allow a line, nay, but a comma, 

To each, turgeret hoc diploma ; 

Quare ; ut tandem concludamus. 

Qui brevitatem approbamus 

(For brevity is always good, 

Providing we be underftood). 

In rerum omnium naturis, 

Non minus quam fcientia juris 

Et medicinae, Doctoratum 1 • 

Bogfseum novimus verfatum ; 

Nor mall we here fay more about him> 

But you may dacker if you doubt him. 

Addamus tamen hoc tantillum, 

Duntaxat noftrum hoc figillum, 

Huic teftimonio appenfum, 

Ad confirmandum ejus fenfum, 

Junclis chirographis cunclorum, 

Blyth, honeft, hearty fociorum. 

Dabamus at a large punch-bowl, 

Within our proper common fchool, 

The twenty-fixth day of November, 

Ten years, the date we may remember, 

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Mac£- After the race of Sheriffmuir 

Poetry (Scotfmen will count from a black hour). 

Ab omni probo nunc fignetur, 

Qui denegabit extrudetur. 

FORMULA GRADUS DANDI. 

Eadem nos auctoritate, 

Reges memoriae beatae. 

Pontifices et papae laeti, 

Nam alii funt a nobis fpreti, 

Quam quondam nobis indulferunt, 

Quae privilegia femper erunt, 

Collegio noftro fafe and found, 

As long 's the earth and cups go round. 

Te Bogfaeum hie creamus, 

Statuimus et proclamamus, 

Artium Magiftrum et Doctorem, 

Si libet etiam Profefforem ; 

Tibique damus poteftatem 

Potandi ad hilaritatem, 

Ludendi porro et jocandi, 

Et mceftos vino medicandi, 

Ad rifum etiam fabulandi ; 

In promiffionis tuae fignum 

Caput, honore tanto dignum 

Hoc cyatho condecoramus,* 

Ut 
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Ut tibi felix fit oramus ; • 

Praeterea in manum damus 

Hunc calicem, ex quo potamus, 

Spumantem generofo vino, 

Ut bibas more Palatine 

Sir, pull it off and on your thumb 

Cernamus fupernaculum, 

Ut fpecimen ingenii 

Pofl ftudia decennii. 

( While he is drinking, the chorus Jings) 

En calicem fpumantem, 
Falerni epotantem • 
En calicem fpumantem, 
Io, io, io. 

(After he has drunk, and turned the glass on 
his thumb, they embrace him, and fmg 
again.} 

Laudamus hunc Doctorem, 
Et fidum compotorem ; 
Laudamus hunc Doctorem, 
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ODE PINDARICO-SAPPHICO-MACARONICA, 
IN CELEBERRIMI ET IMMACULATI VIRI 

GULIELMI PITTII, 

CETERORUMQUE GEORGII TERTII MAGNA BRI- 
TANNIA FRANCLE, ET HIBERNIA, NEC NON 
CORSICA REGIS, DIGNISSIMORUM MINIS- 
TRORUM 
LAUDEM. 

AUCTORE JODOCO COCAIO, 
MERLINI COCAII PRONEPOTE. 




MMA ! fer chartam, calamos, et inkum ! 
Mufa Merlini Cocaii, befriend me : 
Per Deos volo lepidum ac fononim 
Condere carmen. 



Volo Thebarum eximii Poetae 
Grande, divinum, fimulare fongum ; 
Lefbiae volo numeros puellae 
Jungere fuaves. 

Quem virum fumes, cithara Judsea 
Fiftula aut Scota celebrare diva 

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Sportica ! ac qualem capiti coronam 
Ne&ere vis tu ? 

Aqua, without doubt very gooda thinga eft, 
Aurum et, inter divitias fuperbas 
Glifterans, fulget velut ignis ardens 
Nocle ferena\ 

Sed, my dear heart (fi libeat miniftros 
Dicere), ut nullum magis eft corufcum 
Sole fydus, cum vacuum per aether 
Solus Ue fhines forth : 

Sic, cave credas alium micare 
Regios inter celebres alumnos, 
Billio noftro celebratiorem, 
Orbe globofo. 

Quid prius dicam ? Pueri pudici 
Caftitatem num ? nive puriorem ? 
Vah, Venus ! non tarn glacialis Hecla 
Friget ut ille. 

Quodque plus rarum — abftinuiffe nunquam 
Pabulis lautis poculifve plenis 
Fertur \ et Baccho Cererique vota 
Daily refolvit. 

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rVnic ^ n canam miram memoremque mentem 
Poetry Nulla quae forgets, meminiffe quorum 
Intereft ; quorum juvat oblivifci 
Nulla remembrat ! 

Larga verborum potius canenda 
Flumina ; ifludque eloquium bewitchans, 
Quo facrofan<5U patulas fenatus 
Fafcinat aures ! 

Cerne tercentos homines hiantes 
Hujus ad nutum fubito moveji 
Hue et illuc, juft veluti puparum 
Agmina muta ! 

Ille with eafe can facere alba nigra ; 
Rendere et lucem piceas tenebras 
Ille can ; rurfum piceas tenebras 
Rendere lucem ! 

a 

Qui queam magnam Juvenis fagacis 
Bella plannandi celebrare fkillem ? 
Totius terrae tremuere gentes 
Nomine Pitti ! 



Ille Rufforum intrepidam tyrannam 
Unico blafto tremefecit oris ! 



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Unico geftu timidos Iberos 
Terruit omnes ! 



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Ille Gallorum impavidas catervas 
Certius certo Zabulo dediffet, 
Si bonas plannas bonus Imperator 
Executaffet. 

Interim tremblate, homines fcelefti ! 
Bella qui facris geritis monarchis ! 
Quis poteft Pitti fimul et Deorum 
Ferre furorem ? 

Billius, quam fit homo bellicofus 
Vidimus ; jam nunc videamus, alfo, 
Quomodo fifcum managet Britannum, 
Tempore pacis ? 

Ille — fed praeftat, puto, temperare 
Laudibus : — novit populus Britannus 
Quam leves taxas, tenue et tributum 
Pendimus — heigh, hoh ! 



Jurium nee eft magis imperitus : 
Criminum obfeuras, minim as et umbras 
Rite difcernit : — melius vel ipfe 
Non potuit Coke. 



Ille 



Maca- Hie faevorum infidias retexit 

RONIC 

Poetry Civium Regi exitium minantum ! 
Ille traytores draguit latentes 
Auram in apertam ! 

Ille, too, puff-plot, oculis acutis, 
Primus et unus valuit videre : 
Ah ! Georgi ! quam vigilem miniftrum 
Sors tibi donat ! 

Non, tamen, laudes aliis negandae 
Optimi Regis meritae miniftris : 
Stella plus ftella rutilat, fed omnis 
Stella refulget. 

Billio next is Boreale Sydus : 
Scotiae lumen, bonus Henericus ; 
Rofeus, pofl hunc, BpaSv-n-ovs Bootes, 
Scotus et ipfe. 

Proximus illi fapiens et audax 
Dux ducum, Regis moderans tonitru : 
Impio a Gallo nihil eft timendum, 
Sofpite Richmond. 

Subeunt, Regis moderans carinas 
Pervigil Chatham, moderanfque mentem 

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Regiam, Scotus, fenior Sophiftes, 
Nomine notus. 

Hicce, 'tis true, was inimicus a?rdens 
Pittio et Pitti fociis, at one time ; 
Forfitan ardens iterum futurus 
Pitti inimicus. 

Tranfeat : — magnam video cohortem 
Bravium heroiim Jacobin a caftra 
Linquere, et noftris ducibus libenter 
Dedere dextras. 

Ecce ! Portlandus, furiofus olim 
Whiggus, Whiggorum caput ac verendum, . 
Billii blandis precibus Toraeus 
Flammeus eft nunc ! 

Ecce ! Mansfeldus, patiens laboris, 
Syllabas longas phrafeafque grandes 
Viribus magnis, validaque d extra 
Torquet in hoftem ! 

Ecce ! Windhamus, Xoyo7rw\(.ovruiv 
Primus — haud pridem populi patronus, 
Sponte converfus, populi querelas 
Cares not a fig for ! 

Caeteram 



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Caeteram turbam loyalem. atq ; amantem 
Regis, et Regis Pueri miniftri, 
Non opus multis celebrare verbis ; 
Nam -*- numeri funt. 

Mufa Merlini, fatis eft : fileto ! 
Emma, chartam, inkum, calamos repone ; 
Fer, puer, vinum cyathumque magnum : — 
Volo potare. 

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EPISTOLA MACARONICA AD FRATREM : 

DE IIS QU.E GESTA SUNT 
IN NUPERO DISSENTIENTIUM CONVENTU, 
LONDINI HABITO, PRID. ID. FEBR. 1790. 

EM magnam pofcis, Frater cariffime, 
cum vis 
Me tibi quod faid was, quod done 
was, quodque refolved was 
Noftro in conventu generali, cunque referre. 
Attamen I try will ; modo Macaronica Mufa 
Faverit, et fmoothos donarit condere verfus. 

Eft locus in London (Londini dicta Taberna) 
Infignis Celebris ; cives quo fsepe folemus 
Eatare, et drinkare — et difceptare aliquando ! 
Hlc una in Halla magnaque altaque, treceni 
Meetavere viri, ex diverfis nomine fectis : 
Hi quibus et cordi eft audacis dogma Socini, 
Hi quibus arrident potius dictamina Arii ; 
Hi, qui Calvini myfteria facra tuentur ; 
Hi quibus affixura eft a bibaptifmate nomen : 
All in a word qui fe oppreffos molt heavily cre- 

dunt 
Legibus injuftis, teft-oathibus atque profanis ! 
While high-church homines in pomp et luxury 

vivunt, 
Et placeas, poftas, mercedes, munia, grafpant. 

Hi 



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Hi cuncti keen Wire ; fari aut pugnare parati 
Prifca pro caufa. Bravus Beaufoius heros 
Adfuit, et Sawbridge aufterus, et ater Adairi 
Vultus, Bourgoigni et frons pallida. Proximus 

illi 
Watfon grandiloquus ; pod hunc argutus Ief- 

fries 
Perdignus Chairman — et poft hunc Foxius 

ipfe; 
Foxius, eloquii noftro Demoflhenis asvo 
Unicus adfertor ; et libertatis amator 
Unicus ; et nondum venalis ! — Plaudite, Cives ! 
Plaudite magnanimum concivem ; plaudite ve- 

rum 
Humani juris ultorem ; et ducite plaufus 
Ter ternos, donee reboabunt voce columnar 
Nee taceam Milford, Hayward ; Brandhollis 

et ilium 
Cui Saxum eft-nomen,* fed cui non faxeus eft 

heart, 
Aut placidum Thornton, aut afperitate caren- 

tem 
Shore, aut folertem populum fufpendere nafo 
Toulmin, aut praedictum in facro codice Pay- 

neum ! f 

Quid 
* Mr. Stone of London Field. 

t This alludes to a gentleman's having, by way of joke, 
found in the name of John Auguftus Payne, the Apoca- 
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Quid referam Cleri clariffima nomina ? Ree- 

fum, 
Lindfaeum, Kippis, confpicillifque Toerum 
Infignem, et (woe 's me !) violenta forte co- 

a6lum 
Belfhamum ; * niveo candentem pe6lore Difney ; 
Et Price, humani generis totius amicum. 

Non aderas, Prieftley ! — potior te cura tene- 

bat 
Rure, ubi, magna inter centum miracula rerum, 
Horflaei caput in rutilantia fulmina forgis ; 
Sulphuris et fatagis fubtilia grana parare, 
Church quibus, et church-men in caelum up- 

blowere poffis ; f 
Seo^imus ad ternas tabulas longo ordine pof- 

tas, 
Et mappis mundi coveratas, et china-plattis, 
Spoonibus, et knivis fharpis, furcifque trifulcis 
Stratas : cum largis glaffis, vinoque repletis 
Bottellis, faltis, vinegarique cruetis. 
Tandem Caupo ipfus, magna comitante ca- 

terva 
Servorum, intravit laetus, recteque catinos 
Depofuit lautos et magni ponderis. — Inde 
Surrexit Myftes, palmifque oculifque levatis 
Ad ccelos, numen votis precibufque rogavit 



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* Mr. Belfliam is a ftrong neceffarian. 

t See his Letter to Mr. Pitt. 

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Ut nobis noftrifque epulis benedicere vellet. 
Extemplo coveris fublatis, atque retectis 
Viandis calidis, omnes apprendimus arma ; 
Impetu et unanimi proftrata in fercula fertur. 
Quam vehemens onfet, ftrages quamque exi- 
tiales, 
O Mufa, edidimus \ tu dicere fola valebis. 
Die, firft, quas acies e contra inftruxerit hoftis. 
Bos ingens, pinguis, torvus ; qui fronte mi- 
naci 
Cocknaeos olim timidos frightaverat omnes : 
Nunc butcherorum manibus, flammaque fub- 

adhis, 
Nulli eft terribilis ; facilem praebetque tri- 

umphum 
Imbelli cuivis fartori, shoemakerove ! 
Hunc fimul aggreffi fex fortes Cheapfideani 
(Talibus adfueti pugnis) in fruftula liafhant. 
Huic bini vituli fubjuncli ; nulla dedere 
Valoris figna aut mugitus <rcj)a8pd tremendos ; 
Hos igitur fubigunt prentice-boys atque fcho- 
lares. 
Tres turn lanigeri, lana at jam turn fpoliati, 
Apparent ; adeo fed tame, ancillula ut illos, 
(Illorum " Ba, Ba," non territa) caedere poffet ; 
Et caedi a quovis fefe funt fillily paffi ! 

Hos porci totidem (hammati plerumque) fe- 
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Cum fex porcellis, heu nuper ab ubere matrum 
Cruelly fubtractis, et faeva in praelia mims. 
Illorum vifu, fubito et fimul, impetus ingens 
Faclus ; et in parvo momento temporis, omnes 
Porci et porcelli lacerati iraw jacebant. 

Sex pavidi lepores ; pavidi fex poflea coneys 
Segniter accedunt, humiles et pignora pacis 
Pofcere fuppliciter vultu geftuque videntur. 
In vain ! nam nullam veniam dabit angrius 

hoftis, 
Sic coneys leporefque unam fubiere ruinam. 

Hactenus agminibus folis cum quadrupedatis 
Certatum — nunc jam memora quibus afpera 

pugna 
Birdis cum aeriis orta eft, fifhifque marinis. 

Amnicola imprimis grandaevus prodiit anfer 
(Anfer centenum qui jam reachaverat annum) 
Ut Neftor fapiens ; yet ftill animofus ut Ajax ! 
Hunc tamen aggreditur certus great, great city- 
grocer 
Solus, et in quatuor (multo fudore fluente) 
Defecuit partes ! populorum non fine plaufu. 

Anferi in auxilium duckorum pair veniunt fex 
Plumporum fattorum, in prima flore juventae ; 
Sed quibus seque animi defecit corporis et vis. 
Twelve illos manly juvenes ftraightway jugu- 
larunt. 

Tres turcae, quondam thrafones atque tyranni 

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Cortis, et ora etiam geftantes plena minamur, 
Procedunt (magicis guardatis breaftibus herbis) 
Et, fhame ! fhame ! noftris audent defy dare 

trooppis. 
Cujufvis noftrum fubita tumuit jecur ira ; 
Utpote qui infidam teneamur perdere. gentem. 
Arreptas, igitur, laevis jam fanguine tinclas 
Plungimus illorum fcelerata in pectora furcas ; 
Dum fimul invi6Us dextris fulgentia ferra 
Stringimus, et tremulos magna vi casdimus 

hoftes. 
Non ipfe Auftriacas acies qui nuper ad arcem 
Inftruxit Belgrade, Laudhonius, eximiorem 
Obtinuit palmam, vel plus memoranda trophaea ; 
Quam nos in clade hac memoranda turciniana ! 

Gallini generis ftruttantis maxima venit 
Turma ; aft Gallini generis quid turma valeret 
Maxima pugnantis cum bold, bravifque Britan- 

nis ? 
Non citius quondam De-Gram maxima flotta, 
Gallorum boafta, Anglorum virtute fubacla eft ; 
Quam nos Gallinam hanc gentem fubjecimus 

omnem ! 
Perdices, merulas, turdos, larkofque canoros 
Quid memorem, Cleri manibus plerumque fub- 

a6tos? 
Turn cum pinniferis pugnandum erat ordine 

fifhis: 

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Sed haec non fuit aut perlonga aut afpera pugna 
Nam licet, one coddus fauces monftraret hi 

antes 
Et qui cceruleis valde metuendus in undis 
Haud dpbium fuerat ; fed nunc ex aequore 

tractus 
Nolens, et ficco juffus confligere campo, 
Tam feffus, fragilis, fractus feemabat et excors, 
Ilium ut non infans vel laclens jam timuiffet. 
Nullo adeo nifu bankeri clerkius ilium, 
Ferro non duro fed filverfpoone fubegit ! 

Turbam aliam ignaviam fifhorum et fifhiculo- 

rum ; 
Squatinas, rhombos, haddocos et mackarellos. 
Whitingos, carpos, et parvo corpore fmeltos, 
Et fprattos minimos — opus haud eft commem- 

orare, 
Parva illi laus eft, tales qui fuderit hoftes. 
Lobfterus tantum, lories tegmine fretus, 
Obftitit, et renuit nullo certamine vinci. 
Tunc ego belligero Mavorti hoc voveo votum : 
''Apes, Apes ! BporoAoiye, /xtat^ove, Tei^ecmrXrjTa I 
Si mihi lobfteri thoracem findere dones 
Et duras braccas — fragmenta, ut fpolia opima, 
Hifce tuis aris manibus fufpenfa videbis ! " 
Hoc voto emiffo, et praefenti numine factus 
Couragior, fiftum clinchatum et napkine tectum 
Erexi ; et, quatuor repetitis ictibus, hoftem 

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Smafhavi ! — nihil huic duriffima tegmina pro- 

funt. 
Sic pugna eft finita, et fie victoria parta eft. 
Sed qui quod fequitur, nefandum, dicere pof- 

fim ? » 

Nam non contend lautis, quas praeda relata 
Exhibuit plenty in, dapibus ; pane atque pota- 

tis, 
Caulibus, et raphanis, la6lucis brocoliifque, 
Cum pomis 5 piris. orangibus atque racemis : 
Ipfos, indignum ! victos voravimus hoftes ! 
Efuries tantum potuit fuadere malorum ! 

Placatis ftomachis latrantibus, atque feroci 
Ingluvie expleta ; properamus ad Upa Bacchi 
Rite abfolvenda, et burnantem extinguere thirf- 

tum, 
Tam jufta moti caufa, fimul et reputantes 
Quae madnefs fuerit perituris parcere cafkis ; 
Arripimus glaffas, largos et ducimus hauftus 
Lenaei laticis — Primumque ex vite Madeirae 
Fcecunda, forti, generofa, pocula bina 
Regis et in regis Sponfae forbemus honorem. 
Tertia Cambrorum fumma cum laude, litatur 
Principis eximii genio feftivo et amico : 
Principis, Anglorum decoris ; quo fofpite, nun- 

quam 
Res noftras loftas, everfaque jura putabo. 

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Turn, turn, fherraeum genuinum pofcimus ; 
atque 
Grandibus ad brimmum bumperis ufque repletis, 
Surgimus ; et magno praecone fonante boatu 
"Foxius ! " extemplo pateras haurimus ad imum, 
Et novies " Hurra ! " fimul omnes vociferamus. 
Beaufoio, et reliquis confcriptis patribus, anno 
Elapfo noftram qui jam tuiti fuerant rem, 
Glaffa epotata larga, omnia faufta precamur. 

" Foecundi calices quern non fecere difertum ? " 
"Vere olim dixit, quifquis fuit ille, poeta. 
Jam cupimus cuncti fua quae fit copia fandi 
Monftrare, et quae vis ardentia cudere dicta. 
Thick-fhortus fed homo (cui nomen, credo, 
Bevellus) 
Upftaitans medio, fuper et fubfellia fcandens, 
Omnis conventus oculos atque ora trahebat 
Breech-pocket one hand fills ; tortam tenet al- 
tera chartam ; 
Chartam morofis plenam lharpifque refolvis. 
Turn pandit big-mouthum — atque, O ! quae 

grandia verba 
Protulit hie nofter Cicero ! — Mea Mufa nega- 

ret 
Vel decimam illorum, quae dixit, dicere partem. 
Sed tamen, ut crebro vel facundiffima verba, 
Si fuerint nimia atque ad rem paulum adfimu- 
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Diflikam generant — fie tunc genuere. — Re- 

pente 
Auditur ftrepitus difcors ; dum, voce fonora, 
Pars una " Hear, hear him ! " " Move ! move ! " 

pars altera clamat : 
" Move ! move ! " praevaluit tamen, et, though 

greatly relu&ans, 
Orator vehemens fit le6tor frigidus — atque 
Undenas promit tarde torveque Resolvas. 

Protinus, ut mos eft, motum vox una fecundat, 
Laudibus et tollit miris. Iratus Adairus 
Surgit ; et aptato periwig, grandi ore profatur : 
" Quis furor, o Cives ! quae vos dementia cepit ; 
Ut tarn pacificas epulas turbare velitis ? 
Non, vanis verbis pretiofum fpendere tempus 
Adfumus — Eja ergo ventofum wagere bellum 
Ceffemus ; fedem et propriam jam quifque re- 
turn at : 
Et, curis vacui, media de no6te bibamus ! — 
Impranfi. melius res magnas difcutiemus." 
Subfequitur plaufus magnus — fed non gene- 

ralis : 
Nam quidam expreffly venere, ut fpeechifica- 

rent. 
Hos inter juvenis fervens Mancaftrius unus, 
Nomine Cooperus, tales dedit ore loquelas, 
" Shall homines, Chairman ! hiberno tempore 

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Carpere iter, longam atque infomnes ducere 

noctem ; 
Et nil fay, nil do ? — Proh ! Jupiter ; haud ita ; 

no, no ! 
Ergo egomet, mecum et plus centum millia 

more, Sir ! 
Dicimus omnimodo paffandas effe Resolvas. 
Non adeo multum, Chairman, potavimus ufque 
Ut non poffimus de magnis thinkere rebus. 
Ergo iterum dico, paffandas effe Resolvas ! 
Dico paffandas, paffandas effe Resolvas ! " 

His olli verbis, ridens, refpondet Adairus : 
" Pitya magna quidem eft, infomnem tot para- 

fangas 
Menfuraffe viae ; rixis implere moleftis 
Aulam hanc ; turbare et tam convivalia fefta ! 
Profecl;o fatius multo remanere fuiffet 
At home cum friendis, uxoribus, atque puellis ; 
Quam tales medio in conventu emittere voces. 
Concordes quoniam convenimus, rupta querelis 
Nullis fit qusefo concordia. Cumque parati 
Non fimus, decet ut, tot dicuffare Resolvas : 
Vah, curas vanas ! — ad pocula, friends, redea- 
t mus ? 
Pluribus haec placuit fententia ; jam que fmif- 

tris 
Emptaeas glaffas manibus grafpamus, ut illas 
Fragranti ex tefta impleremus Burdigalenfi ; 

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Cum Doclor, perverfo agitatus daemone, Fellus 
Omnia fpoilavit — nam bencha flans fuper alta, 
Verba quidem four four, fatis at facunda profa- 

tur. 
" Sergeanti do<5to nolo concedere, Chairman ! 
Nos non prepared are omnes difcuffere pointas 
Propofitas — Quare nam ! Anne illas primum 

hodiedum 
Verfamus mente in? Quartus jam volvitur an- 
nus, 
Ex quo iterum atque iterum, plerique revolvi- 

mus omnes 
Illarum nexus et nodos. Nee mihi quifquam 
Hoc neget. — At, forfan, dicat quis ! Efto, quid 

inde ? 
Idcircone juvat lites motare feroces 
Fefta inter, faevafque animis concordibus iras 
Fundere ? Refponfum hoc habeat. Difcordia 

fi quae 
Exoriatur parva ; hinc non, mihi crede, timen- 

dum 
Evillum minimum ; fed erit certamen amicum 
Friends inter tantum — Num non, num non, 

fumus omnes 
Diffenters ? Num non, num non caufa omnibus 

una ell ? 
Ergo meum votum eft, paffandas effe Resolvas. 

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" Brave! " turba exclamat vecors — Pruden- 

tior autem 
Pars lliakare caput vifa eft, et wryere mouthum. 
Interea Watfon fefe (Saulus velut alter 
In medio populi) raifans, ora et rubicunda 
Often dens ; hsec eft feftiva voce locutus : 
" Quid refert omnes Diffenters effe, et eandem 
Caufam agere, inter vos fi tantum diffidium fit ? 
Hie ! Move ! move ! Ille : Hear ! . hear ! Vote ! 

vote ! intonat alter, 
Dum vere moderati homines know not what to 

think on 't ; 
Much lefs what to fay to 't. For fhame ! ceffe- 

mus, amici, 
Deprecor, altifonis confumere tempora verbis. 
Dico Committo referendas effe Resolvas 
In toto — Mihi fit permiffum hoc edere vo- 

tum?' 
" Cunctorum eft votum : " we cry as loud as 

we can cry ; 
Loud fed as our cry was, non terruit ille Toe- 
rum : 
Qui, indignum ratus cofeclum perdere fpeechum, 
Upftitit, et tabulam mountans fuper, haud fine 

nifu, 
Strokavit ventrem, verba et ruclare paravit, 
Et quamquam quater interruptus vocibus altis 

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Clamantum ; " Move ! move ? " tandem patulas 

tamen aures 
Obtinuit ; fatis et prove&am fecit haranguam : 
Sed qualem ignoro. Nam fum furdufculus : 

atque 
Mufa then exierat cceleftem fippere thaeam, 
And do res alias parvas ; tandemque reverfa 

eft, 
Rhetoris ut labiis exibant ultima verba. 
Sed tamen, if fit fas externis conjecluram 
Ducere de fignis ; certo fupponere fas eft, 
Speechum hoc bitterum, potius quam fuave, 

fuiffe. 
Pauci adeo plaufus. — Multo pejora fed illi, 
Fari qui poft hunc tentavit, fata fuere \ 
Nomine (pfhaw ! pfhaw ! pfhaw !) Hubb, Hubb 

— et fyllaba longa. # 
Ter conatus erat facunda aperire labella, 
Ter labra occludit loud vociferatio : " Down, 

down ! " 
Turn furgit Chairman j et : " Num placet, O 

generofi 
Watfonis votum ? " Plerique upliftimus handas ! 
Sic ceffant rixae. — Sed non jam yet bonus 

humor 
Redditus : multi nam torvos oftendere vultus, 
Bitare et lippas, longum et deducere murmur 

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Continuant ; tantae et nebulae jam nunc oriun- 

tur 
Ut nova feemaret fubito ventura procella, 
Cum (Deus ut volucer coelo delapfus ab alto) 
Foxius apparet ; nimbos et diffipat omnes 
Flexanimis verbis, blandse et dulcedine vocis. 

Non, mihi tercentum linguas fi fata dediffent, 
Et calamum puro manantem nectare — non turn 
Dicere fperarem vel fcribere prj/xara poffe, 
Illius ex lippis quae mellea cunque fluebant. 
Sit fatis efFari, non prj/xara van a fuiffe. 

Nem velut Aprili medio fi quando ferenum 
Turbarit ccelum Boreas, denfisque nigrarit 
Nubibus ; attonita et meruit Natura ruinam 
Grandineo ex nimbo — fubito Sol imperat Euro 
Alipedes ut jungat equos, fefque fequatur ! 
Ipfe fedens curru, radiorum spicula fpargit 
Purpurea : aclutum et toto denfiffima ccelo 
Nubila depellit — Sic tunc diffufa per aulam 
Aurea vox Foxi faevas compefcuit iras, 
Et laetos hilarefque ad pocula cara remifit. 

Pocula furripimus. — Sed vae ! vae ! nulla ma- 
nebant 
Ticketa ; * nam Difney (Deuce take him !) om- 
nia loft had ! 

Clubandum 

* It is ufual to give tickets to the guefts, on entering, 
which tickets entitle them to call, after dinner, for their 
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Clubandum fie eft rurfum, fi vina velimus. 
Omnibus at notum eft, qua paupertate Poeta 
Sit preffus : cum, ergo, fcirem me vix dare poffe 
Unum obolum ; tacitus furgo, furtimque galero 
Et baculo arreptis (nonam ftrikantibus horam 
Jam clockis, ferme et fhutatis undique fhoppis) 
Dilectos repeto contenta mente penates, 
Hasc tibi fcripturus, cariffime — Vive valeque ! 

— Dr. Geddes. 





THE DEATH OF THE SEA SERPENT. 

BY PUBLIUS JONATHAN VIRGILIUS JEFFERSON SMITH. 

Arma virumque cano, qui firft in Monongahela 
Tarnally fquampufhed the farpent, mittens hor- 

rentia tella, 
Mufa, look fharp with your Banjo ! I guefs to 

relate this event, I 
Shall need all the aid you can give \ fo nunc 

afpirate canenti. 
Mighty flick wece the veffels progreffing, Jac- 

tata per aequora ventis, 
But the brow of the flapper was fad, cum foli- 

citudine mentis ; 
For whales had been fcarce in those parts, and 

the fldpper, fo long ,as he'd known her, 
Ne'er had gathered lefs oil in a cruife to glad- 
den the heart of her owner. 
" Darn the whales," cries the fkipper at length, 

" with a telefcope forte videbo 
Aut pifces, aut terras." While fpeaking, juft 

two or three points on the lea bow, 
He faw coming toward them as faft as though 

to a combat 'twould tempt 'em, 
A monftrum horrendum informe (qui lumen 

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On the taffrail up jumps in a hurry, dux fortis, 

and feizing a trumpet, 
Blows a blaft that would waken the dead, mare 

turbat et aera rumpit — 
" Tumble up all you lubbers," he cries, " tum- 
ble up, for careering before us 
Is the real old fea farpent himfelf, criftis macu- 

lifque decorus." 
" Confarn it," cried one of the failors, " if e'er 

we provoke him he'll kill us, 
He'll certainly chaw up hos morfu, et longis, 

implexibus illos." 
Loud laughs the bold fkipper, and quick premit 

alto corde dolorem ; 
(If he does feel like running, he knows it won't 

do to betray it before 'em.) 
" O focii," inquit. " I'm fartin you're not the 

fellers to funk, or 
Shrink from the durem certamen, whofe fathers 

fit bravely at Bunker ; 
You, who have waged with the bears, and the 

buffalo, prcelia dura, 
Down to the frefhets and licks of our own free 

enlightened Miffourer; 
You, who could whip your own weight, catulis 

faevis fine telo, 
Get your eyes fkinned in a twinkling, et ponite 

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Talia voce refert, curifque ingentibus aeger, 
Marfhals his 'cute little band, now panting their 

foes to beleaguer. 
Swiftly they lower the boats, and fwiftly each 

man at the oar is, 
Excipe Britanni timidi duo, virque coloris. 
(Blackfkin, you know, never feels, how fweet 

'tis pro patria mori ; 
Ovid had him in view when he faid " Nimium 

ne crede colori.") 
Now fwiftly they pull towards the monfter, who 

feeing the cutter and gig nigh, 
Glares at them with terrible eyes, fuffectis fan- 

guine et igni, 
And, never conceiving their chief will fo quickly 

deal him a floorer, 
Opens wide to receive them at once, his Unguis 

vibrantibis ora \ 
But juft as he's licking his lips, and gladly pre- 
paring to tafte 'em, 
Straight into his eyeball the lkipper ftridentem 

conjicit'haflanij. 
Straight ^s he feels in his eyeball the lance, 

growing mightily fulky 
At 'em he comes in a rage, ora minax, lingua 

trufulca. 
" Starn all," cry the failors at once, for they 

think he has certainly caught 'em, 
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Praefentemque viris intentant omnia mortem. 
But the bold flapper exclaims, " O terque qua- 

terque beati ! 
Now with a will dare viam, when I want you, 

be only parati ; 
This hofs feels like railing his hair, and in fpite 

of his fcaly old cortex, 
Full foon you ihall fee that his corpfe rapidus 

vorat sequore vortex." 
Hoc ait, and choofing a lance : " With this one 

I think I mall hit it," 
He cries, and ftraight into his mouth, ad intima 

vifcera mittit, 
Screeches the creature in pain, and writhes till 

the fea is commotum, 
As if all its waves had been lafhed in a temper! 

per Eurum et Notum. 
Interea terrible fhindy Neptunus fenfit, et alto 
Profpiciens fadly around, wiped his eye with 

the cuff of his patelot ; 
And, mad at his favorite's fate, of oaths ut- 
tered one or two thoufand, 
Such as " Corpo di Bacco ! Mehercle ! Sacre ! 

Mille Tonnerres ! Potztaufend ! 
But the flapper, who thought it was time to 

this terrible fight dare finem, 
With a fcalping knife jumps on the neck of the 

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And, hurling the fcalp in the air, half mad with 

delight to .poffefs it,. 
Shouts "Dam it — I've fixed up his flint, for 

in ventos vita receffit ! " 

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THE CHASE. 

Arma virumque candj qui primo folebo peeping 
Jam nunc cum tabby nox languet to button her 

eyelids. 
Cum pointers et fpaniels campos fylvafque per- 

rerant 
Vos, mihi, Bronto thefi over arms fmall and 

great, dominantes, 
Date fpurs to dull poet qui dog Latin carmina 

condit. 
Artibus atque novis audax dum fportfmen I 

follow 
Per flubble et turnips, et tot difcrimina rerum, 
Dum partridge with popping terrificare minan- 

tur, 
Pauci, namque valent a feather tangere plumbo, 
Carmina fi hang fire, difcharge them, bag-pip- 
ing Apollo, 
Te quoque magne cleator, te memorante, pre- 

camur, 
Jam nunc thy fame gallops fuper Garamantos 

et Indos, 
Nam nabobs nil rife de brimftone et charcoal 

loquentur 
Harriferifizque "Tippoo," fulphurea fuflinet 

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Induit ecce mooter, tunicam made of neat mar- 
ble drugget 

Quae bene convenient defluxit to the waiftband 
of breeches, 

Nunc paper et powder et filices popped in the 
fide pocket, 

Immemor haud fhot bag graditur comitatus two 
pointers 

Melloria retinens tormentam dextra bibarrelled, 

En ftat flaunch dog Dingo, hand aliter quam 
fteady guide-poft, 

Proximus atque Pero ftat fi ponere juxta. 

With gun cocked and levelled et seva lumine 
claufo 

Nunc avicida refolves haud double ftrong par- 
cere powder, 

Vos teneri yelpers, vos grandivique parentes, 

Nunc palfy pate Jove orate to drefs to the left 
hand, 

Et Veneri tip the wink like a ihot to fkim down 
ab alto 

Mingere peu touch-hole totamque madefceri 
priming ; 

Nunc lugite dire, nunc fportfman plangite pal- 
mas 

Ex filvis ecce ! lepus from box cum thiftle 
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Bang bellowed both barrels, heu ! pronus fter- 

nitur each dog 
Et pufs in the interim creeps away fub tegmire 

thornbufh. 

— Notes and Queries. 




LINGO DRAWN FOR THE MILITIA. 

Ego nunquam audivi fuch terrible news, 
At this prefent tempus my fenfes confuse ; 
I'm drawn for a miles, I muft go cum marte 
And, concinus enfe, engage Bonaparte. 

Such tempora nunquam videbant majores 
For then their opponents had different mores : 
But we will foon prove to the Corfican vaunter, 
Tho' times may have changed, Britons never 
mutantur. 

Mehercle ! this conful non poteft be quiet, 
His word muft be lex, and what he fays "fiat." 
Quafi Deus, he thinks we muft run at his nod, 
But Britons were ne'er good at running, a rod. 

Per mare, I rather am led to opine 
To meet Britifh naves he would not incline ; 
Left he fhould in mare profundum be drowned, 
Et cum alga, non laura, his caput be crowned. 

But allow that this boafter in Britain could 

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Multis cum aliis at his command, 

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Here are lads who will meet, aye, and properly 

work 'em, 
And fpeedily fend em, ni fallor, in orcum. 

Nunc, let us amici join cord a et manus, 
And ufe well the vires Dii Boni afford us. 
Then let nations combine, Britain never can 

fall — 
She's multum in parvo — a match for them all. 
— By Dr. Porson. From " Relics of Literature!'' 




CARMEN AD TERRY * 

Terry leave us, fumus weary : 
Jam nos taedet te videre, 
Si vis nos with joy implere, 
Terry in hac terra tarry, 
Diem nary. 

For thy domum long'ft thou nonne ? 
Habes wife et filios bonny ? 
Socios Afros magis ton-y ? 
Hafte thee Terry, mili-terry, 
Pedem ferre. 

Forte Thaddeus may delire thee, 
Sumner, et id. om., admire thee, 
Nuifance nobis, not to ire thee, 
We can fpare thee, magne Terry, 
Freely, very. 

Hear the Prex's proclamation, 
Nos fideles to the nation, 

Gone 

* Written while General Terry, U. S. A., with his 
black foldiers, was in command at Richmond, Va., after 
its evacuation by the Confederate troops. 



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Maca- Gone eft nunc thy place and station 

RONIC • J X 

Poetry Terry-fier momen-terry 

Sine query. 

Yes, thy doom eft fcriptum — " Mene," 
Longer ne nos nafo tene, 
Thou haft dogged us, diu bene, 
Loofe us, terrible bull terry-er, 
We'll be merrier. 

But the dukes Afros, vale, 

Pompey, Scipio et Sally, 

Seek fome back New Haven alley, 

Terry, quit this territory 

Con amore. 

Sed verbum titi, abituro, 
Pay thy rent-bills, et conjuro, 
Tecum take thy precious bureau 
Terry, Turner, blue-coat hom'nes 
Abhinc omnes ! 

— Horace Milton. 




A MACARONIC, 

BY TOM DISHINGTON, SOMETIME CLERK OF CRAIL. 

Horrifero nivium nimbos Aquilone ruente, 
Sic tonuit Thoma Difhingtonus ore rotundo. 

Saccum cum fugaro, cum drammibus in a glaf- 

feo, 
In hoc vervece, eft melius quam pipe o' tobacco, 
JEWi cum bickero, cum pyibus out o' the oono, 
Cum pifce, Crelli nominato vulgo caponem 
Quid melius, fmtter un6tus butyro ? 
Virides et beefum, cum no/e nippante finapi ; 
O quam guftabunt ad Maria More's fyr-fydum ! 
Sin erimus drunki, Deel care ! aras dat medici- 

num 
"Qui bibit ex laftis ex firftibus incipit ille." 

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THE POLKA. 

Maca- . Qui nunc dancere vult modo, 

Poetry Wants to dance in the fafhion, oh ! 

Difcere debet ought to know, 
Kickere floor cum heel and toe. 
One, two, three, 
Come hop with me. 
Whirligig, twirligig, rapidee. 

Polkam, jungere, Virgo vis ? 
. Will you join in the polka, Miss ? 
Liberius, mort willingly, 
Sic agemus, then let us try. 

Nunc vide, 

Skip with me. 
Whirlabout, roundabout, celere. 

Turn laeva cito turn dextra, 
Firft to the left, then t'other way ; 
Afpice retro in vultu, 
• You look at her, fhe looks at you. 
Das palmam, 
Change hands, ma'am. 
Celere, run away, jufl in fham. 

— Gilbert Abbott h Becket. 



VERY FELIS-ITOUS. 

Felis fedit by a hole, 
Intente me, cum omni foul, 
Predere rats. 

Mice cucurrerunt trans the floor 
In numero duo tres or more, 
Obliti cats. 

Felis faw them oculis, 

" I'll have them," inquit Ihe, " I guefs, 

Dum ludunt." 

Tunc ilia crepit toward the group, 

" Habeam " dixit, " good rat foup — 

Pingues funt." 

Mice continued all ludere, 

Intenti they in ludum vere, 

Gaudenter. 

Tunc rufhed the felis into them, 

Et tore them omnes limb from limb, 

Violenter. 

MORAL. 

Mures omnes, nunc be my, 

Et aurem praebe mihi — 

Benigne : 

Sit hoc fatis — " verbum fat," 

i¥void a whopping Thomas cat 

Studiofe. 

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CE MEME VIEUX COON. 
Maca- Ce raeme vieux coon n'eft pas quite mort, 

KONIC * ± 

Poetry H n'eft pas feulement napping : 
Je penfe, myfelf, unlefs j'ai tort 
Cette chofe eft yet to happen. 

En dix huit forty-four, je fais, 
Vouf 11 hear des curious noifes ; 
He'll whet ces dents againft fome Clay, 
Et fcare des Loco — Boif-es ! 

You know que quand il eft awake, 
Et quand il fcratch ces clawfes, 
Les Locos dans leurs fouliers make, 
Et, fheepifh, hang leurs jawf-es. 

Ce meme vieux coon, je ne fais pas why, 
Le mifchief 's come acrofs him, 
II fait believe he's going to die, 
Quand feulement playing poffum. „ 

Mais wait till nous le want encore, 
Nouf '11 ftir him with une pole ; 
He'll bite as mauvais as before 
Nous pulled him de fon hole ! 

— A Relic of the Henry Clay Campaign of»iS^4- 



CLUBBIS NOSTER. 

Sunt quidam jolly dogs, Saturday qui no6le fre- 

quentant, 
Antiqui Stephanon, qui ftat prope 'moenia 

Drury, 
Where they called for faccos cum prog diften- 

dere fellies, 
Indulgere jocis, nee non Baccho atque tobacco ; 
In mundo tales non fellows ante fuere 
Magnanionam heroum celebrabe carmine lau- 

deo, 
Pofthae illuftres ut vivant omne per aevum, 
Altior en Stephano locus eft, fnug, cofy receffus, 
Hie quarters fixere fuos, conclave tenet hie, 
Hie dapibus cumulata, hie mahogany menfa, 
Pafcuntur varies, roafl beef cum pudding of 

YorkfTiire, 
Interdum, fometimes epulis quis nomen agref- 

tes 
Boiled leg of mutton and trimmings impofuere 
Hie double X haurit, Barclay and Perkins ille. 
Sic erimus drunki, Deelcore 1 aras dat mendi- 

cinum 
Nee defuit mixtis que fefe polibus implent. 
Quus " offnorl " omnes confuefcunt dicere wait- 
ers. 

Poftquam, 



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Poftquam, exempta fames grubbo mappaque 
remota. 
Pro cyathio clarmet, qui goes fermone vocan- 

tur. 
Vulgari, of whifkey, rum, gin and brandy, fed 

lit funt ; 
Coelicolumqui punch (" erroribus abfque ") li- 

quore 
Gaudent ; et panci vino quod prce^bet Opporto, 
Quod certi black-ftrap dicunt nicknomine Graii, 
Hauftibus his pipe, communis et adjiciuntur, 
Shag, Reditus, Cubae, Silvae, Cheroots et Ha- 
vana^ 
" Feftina viri " bawls one, " nunc ludito ver- 
bis " 
Alter " Fcemineum fexum " propinquat et 

" Hurrah." 
Refpondet pot houfe conceffu plaufibus omni. 
Nunc fimiles, veteri verfantur winky lepores 
Omnibus exiguus nee. Jingotefte tumultus, 
Exoritur quoniam fumma, nituntur opum vi 
Rivales aXkoi top fawyers' e/x/xevat dAAwv, 

Eft genus injenui lusus quod nomine Burk- 
ing. 
Notem eft, vel Burko, qui claudere cuncta fole- 

bat 
Ora olim, eloquio, pugili vel forfitan ifto 
Deaf un, vel Burko pueros qui Burxit ad illud, 

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Plaufibus aut fictis joculatorem excipiendo, 
Aut bothering aliquid referentem, conftat ami- 

cum. 
Hoc parvo excutitur multus conamine rifus, 
Nomina magnorum referebam nunc pauca 

viorum, 
Marcus et Henricus Punchi duo lumina magna 
(Whacks his Ariftotleam, Sophoclem, Brown 

wollopeth ille) 
In clubbum adveniunt, Juvenalis et advenit 

acer 
Qui veluti Paddywhack for love conlundit ami- 

cos ; 
Ingentefque animos non parvo in corpore ver- 

fans 
Tullius ; et Matutini qui Sidus Heraldi eft 
Georgius ; Albertus Magnus ; vefterque poeta. 
Praefidet his Neftor qui tempore vixit in annae, 
Credetur et vidiffe Jophet, non youngfter at 

ullos. 
In chaff, audaci certamine, vinceret ilium, 
Ille jocus mollit di6lis, et pecl:ora.mulcet, 
Ni faciat tumblers, et goes, et pocula pewter, 
Quippe Aliorum alii jactarent forfan in aures. 



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A FRAGMENT. 

Anno incipiente happinabit fnowee multum 
Et Gelu intenfum ftreetas coverabit with flidas, 
Conftanterque little boys Aided and pitched 
about fnowballs, [dentes 

Quorum not a few bunged up the eyes of ftu- 
Irritati ftudentes chargebant policemen to take 
up [then 

Little boys, fed Charlies refufabant fo for to do, 
Contemptim ftudentes apellabant "Pedicatores." 
Studentes indignati reverberant complimenta ; 
Turn multi homines, " blackguards " qui gentle- 
men vocant, 
Bakers and Butchers, et Bullies et Colliers 

atres, 
Et alii ceffatores qui locus Ecclefiae frequent, 
" Tron Church " et Cowgate, cum its oderifer- 

ous abyfs, 
Affaultant ftudentis flickis et umbrellibus. 
" Hit 'em hard i Hit 'em hard ! " fhoutant 

" damnatos puppies." 
" Calamitofque torios " appellant et various vile 

terms, 
Studentes audiebant, fed devil an anfwer re- 
turned. 
— " Univerfity Snowdrop" a ferial of Edinburgh Univer- 
fity, early in the prefent century. 



AGNEWIDOS. 

Apre l'uomo infelice allor che nafce 

In quefta vita di miferie piena 

Pria ch'al fol, gli occhi al pianto ; e nato appena 
Va prigionier fra le tenace fafce. 

— Sonetto del Marini. 

When people firft their eyes unclofe 
Upon this world of grief and twaddling, 

They are predoomed to various woes — 

Beginning in their fwaddling clothes, 
And ending in a clofe of fwaddling. 

— Barry Cornwall. 

II faut paffer la manche 
Pour voir mes amis comme on garde un dimanche. 

— Dr. Bowring. 

nijn tft% B?JDH roiafc? nn& 

-. o^-bvn nvm Vipa ws 

: D«*n$rro? ins ttfinnn wr\ 

Rabbi Hyman. — 

UNDAY virumque cano, quo non at- 
rocior unquam, [ Du g- 

Verily do thinko, terris apparuit hum- 
Eft infernal enim Scotchman, cordefque per 
omnes 

Vult 



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Vult ftrikare metum, rigido pius ore locutus, 
Quo minus on Sunday meat-pies hottofque vore- 

mus 
Puddings. Multum ille a young folks detefted 

et old folks, 
Multa quoque et rifu paffus dum addrefferet 

Houfam, 
Inferretque fimul Billam, fermone lugubri. 
Mufa mihi caufas memora, what members 

abetting, 
Quidve volens animis Commons, tot pullere 

faces 
Infignem nihilo numfkull, tot makere fpeeches 
Twango infernali, quid tot propoundere billas, 
Permittat. Tantum fupereft parl'mentary leif- 

ure ? 
Eft domus Antiquo Yardo,* Weftminfter ad 

aulam 
Spectans, quam plures ipfo coluiffe feruntur 
Bellamy pofthabito. Siquid contenditur, utriim 
Whig vel Tory majus valeat pecus, aidere 

viewas 
Quo melius poflint domus haec Radloeia fem- 

per 

Accipit hofpitio.f Hie meetings pro talibus 
objects 

Holdendi 

* Palace Yard, in front of Weftminfter Hall, 
t Radley's Hotel, Bridge St., Blackfriars. 



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Holdendi, hie proprium fan&um, hue concurri- 

tur always. 
Jamque dies aderat. Venientes undique cir- 

ciim 
Long-faced fleek homines vidit Radlceius hos- 

pes. 
Undique venerunt — Agnewia turba — viamque 
Totam complerunt loudceis fighibus atque 
Sobbibus. Haud aliter taurorum Althorpia 

fcecla 
Bellovvare folent inter jucunda vireta, 
Dozantemque vocant dominum, fubque arbore 

fomnos 
Rumpunt; tantus.erat venientum fingular hub- 
bub. 
Nunc fimul atque fores Family panduntur Ho- 

telli, 
Intravere omnes members, fedefque tenebant, 
Fleetwoodque, et Plumptree, et vultu Stanley 

fevero, 
Plagiary Baines,* fan6lufque Trevor, fanctufque 

Sir Ofwald.f 

Quin 
* Sic audit apud Cobbettura paffim : idem apud eun- 
dem the Great Liar of the North faepe fonat. Extat Reg- 
ijler defun&i fenis pofteritati perutile monumentum. [Ed- 
ward Baines, then M. P. for Leeds, had incurred Cob- 
bett's anger, as editor of the Leeds Mercury.] 

t Members of Parliament, who fupported Sir A. Ag- 
new's Sabbatarian movement. Sir Andrew, upon whom 

this 



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Quin fubito extrema furgit de parte roomae 
Slight murmur, ftrepitus qui mox effertur ad 

outright. 
" En venit ille ! venit dominus fancliffimus 

Agnew, 
En venit ille, deus nobis qui hoec otia fecit ! " 
Conclamant omnes, thumpuntque outrageoufly 

menfas. 
Ille autem upturn ans oculos, tacitufque per au- 

lam 
Incedens Baronet, folium petit, agmine certo. 

Mox cum confurgens animis virtute fevera 
Triftes cuique viro corners demiferat oris 
Verus amor patriae, junftis palmifque genifque, 
Clearat thoracem genitor ; — dein talia fatur. 
" O gentlemenni, rerumque hominumque magis- 

ter 
Quum vocat, et dignum qui jam committee 

praeeffem 
Me putat effe fuae tanto renuare favori 
Haud poffum ; nee enim, quod dat Deus ipfe, 

gravandum eft 
Officium ; tamen in meliores difplicet olim 
Non cecidiffe manus. O firs, me percutit hor- 
ror Quo 

this Macaronic is intended as a fatire, was a fanatic Scotch 
Baronet of large income, who agitated fiercely for ftrin- 
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Quo me cunque fero — furor, indignatio, amaze- 
ment, 

Ut circumfpicio et noftris de moribus aevi 

Confidero. O gentlemenni, me percutit .ut- 
moft 

Woe, gravis et concern, fpe<5tantem tempora 
noftra. 

Quis nefcit pietatis enim, Lordifque diei, 

Contemptum penitus cultum ? Quis nefcit ad 
ipfum 

Adproperare Devil as fafl as poffible all things ? 

Dicite, mi friendes — inform us — anne feren- 
dum eft 

Ut petat inferior people fibi certa parare 

Gaudia, non aliter quam fi felicior effet 

Gens hominum, noftra et quae conditione po- 
tita? 

Ut fibi defirant pleafures, lufufque, et amufe- 
ments, 

Et recreare optent ficut recreamus et ipfi ? 

Natura miferi, fie fient arte beati ? 

Mofl fhocking mores ! O tempora truly licen- 
tious ! 

O gentlemenni, drivantum ut nuper in Hyde 
Park 

Me meus on Sunday rapido tulit agmine cur- 
rus, 

Vidi mendicum — et fateor liver urere ccepit 

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Bilis,*ut I perceived his wife and family with 

him ; 
Nam mendicus, I fay, fuit hie mendicus, et 

omni 
Paupertate gravis, fqualens, miferabilis, aeger, 
Et tamen uxorem qui duxerat ! — Ilia lacertis 
Two tulit healthy babies, alii funt quinque fe- 

cuti. 
Quos procul afpiciens groanavi pectore ab imo, 
Pauperis illius referens fcelera omnia claffis. 
Jufta fed ah ! mentem quanto magis ira tene- 

bat 
Cum fteterint nearer, geftumque atque ora vi- 

debam ! 
Non vultu defpair, gemitus nee voce ferebant, 
Ut decuit ; verum (fcelerati !) dulcia fecum 
Verba loquebantur — referam vis omnia? — 

ccelum, 
Et terrain, viridemque herbam, ventofque falu- 

bres, 
Carpere non aliter vifi quam fi fibi cuncla 
Turn bona conftiterint, nullifque doloribis acli ! 
Nay, firs, ridebant — (quis credat?) ficut et ipfi 
Sub pedibus flores, ridebant pectora laeti ! 
O gentlemenni, non poffum plura — tumefco, 
Horrefco memorans, uror, vox faucibus — 

{hear, hear I) 
Quin haec fufficiant. Nunc quando talia poffit 

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Impia mens hominum, cumque impia tanta li- 
bido 
Inftat vivendi, pariterque doloribus et pains 
Impius objection — nobis occurrere morbo 
Quo datur huic vifum eft nihil elfe fupereffe but 

one thing — 
Illud nempe meum — res vel notiffima — Bil- 

lum. 
Hoc vos ut rebus animifque et voce juvando, 
Omnibus anteferatis, ego Dominufque rogamus. 
O memores eftote, precor — fit mente repoftum, 

NUNQUAM PAUPERIBUS SORTEM IGNOSCAMUR 
INIQUAM." 

Dixit, et in menfam magno cum pondere pug- 

num 
Impegit ; tollunt illi ad fidera loud cheers, 
Fleetwoodque, et Plumptree, et vultu Stanley 

fevero, 
Plagiary BainesJ fanctufque Trevor, fanctufque 

SirOfwald. 
Turn contra tales referebat pectore voces 
Poulter. — " Nil equidem, ut nobis, chairmanne, 

videtur, 
Aptius effe poteft, nil excellentius, ifto 
Quod memoras Billo \ fuit omni parte proban- 

dum, 
Nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatemur. 
Attamen hoc vereor, licet omnibus anteferentes, 

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Et rebus noftris animifque et voce juvemus, 
Per hookam aut crookam nos hoc proferre per 

Houfam 
Nullo poffe die. Quae contemplatus, amici, 
Ne totum fruftretur opus, maneatque for ever 
Libertas populi nobis intacta Britanni — 
Propofitum framare novum non ipfe timebam. 

Et nos vincemus. Fuerit then, at any rate una 
Utile re tandem Billum, Lord's-dayque labores, 
O chairmanne, tui — modo quod difcrimine 

nullo 
Nefcio quae notion mentes jam poffidet omnes, ■ 
Res quafi non dubitanda foret, fed certa futurum 
Per fati decreta, novis fub legibus ilia 
Subjicienda dies ut fit, populique proceedings, 
Seriiis aut citius. Tantum botheratio pollet 
Et fine fine die repetitum quicquid in omni eft ! 
Nil opus eft nos rem celare j hie inter amicos 
Omnia fas fari. Rabblum latuiffe videtur — 
Nofmet non latuit — quae tanti caufa laboris ; 
Quippe metus, noftris ne conftituentibus oufti 
Perdamus places, cum toti — fiquid agendum 

eft- 
Ex Methodiftorum votis pendemus, et ultra- 
Quod fperemus adhuc, nifi deteftation et hatred, 
Quo nos cunque Deum petimus, nil prorfus ha- 

bemus. 

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Certus I am, quite wellque fcio, quod fmellere 

rattam 
Incipiunt moft nofes ; O then, mens publica 

noftros 
Ne prius obfervet, quam libertate perempta, 
Confilio parere meo, nee obeffe monenti, 
Imploru hunc meeting atque alto corde be- 

feecho." 
Talibus orabat Poulter, cunctique fremebant 
Affenfu vario. Turn contra talia Sibthorpe. 
" Non ego quern nobis fermonem fecit, amici, 
Member honorandus, poffum laudare precifely. 
Ingenium laudo, placet ars — res difplicet {hear, 

hear !) 
Difplicet a. veteri quidquam ratione remiffum, 
Difplicet id populo, fir, fuccubuiffe petenti. 
Namque, O gentlehomines, vos oro, dicite tan- 
dem, [fraena 
An decet, an libitum eft, manibus quae tradita 
Haec laxare quidem, fegnes, virgamque timen- 

tes 
Fleclere divinam ? Foret indeed too bad, 

amici, 
Cum Deus ipfe fuis nobis dedit effe miniftris, 
Atque vir ille (viro modo fi contingere tanta 
Mortali poffit virtus) fanctiffimus Agnew 
Talis dux nobis praefit qualis datus olim 
Judseis Mofes — Domino nee carior illo — 

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Effet, I fay, too bad, fub circumftantibus iftis, 
Nos hoc, gentlehomines, noftro praebere mi- 

nores 
X)fficio. Quid enim ? quid noftis dulcius illo, 
Quidve majus pleafant? En, vilis currit in 

omne 
Mobba.nefas: majis in coaches ridare than 

ever 
Nunc placet hacknaeis, cabbifque, ferentibus et 

twelve 
Diris omnibiis ; Aftley's juvat ire theatrum : 
Non legiffe pudet libros,magazinfque, nee ipfas 
Coflantes unum moft dang'rous penny gazet- 

tas. 
Quid referam tap-rooms, et amantes pocula 

fide-boards, 
Necnon piporum nubes atrofque cigarros, 
Et beero benches obmerfas, tipfyque rowas ? 
Quid referam whole pots of vile potabile quid- 

quam, 
Sit Meux, fit Whitbread, feu fit Truman, Han- 
bury, Buxton * — 
Pots, inquam, on Sunday, vicina. faepe taberna, 
Juffos — mox certo repetundos ordine fame 

pots ; 
Nullo et depofitas potboyi tempore curas ? 

Quid 



* Names of eminent porter-brewers in London. 






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Quid cook-mops,, rapice et volventem ad Tartara 

pie-cruft, 
Et gravy, rem Domino invifam, brownofque po- 
tatoes, 
Atque omne hottorum ftudium fatale ciborum ? 
Gentlehomjnes, etiam tea-gardens crowdere vidi 
Multos faepe viros, pueros, women, atque puel- 

las ; 
Walkere pars, airaque frui, pars talkere fecum. 
Talia cum prohibet, jubet et lex carpere contra 
All of an afternoon in backparloribus altos, 
Non divina quidem, fed certe Agnewia, fomnos. 

Atque ibi ni fallor datur huge lot of kiffing and 

drinking 
Res quae I think not correct — not I — by the 
curl of my whifker." 
Hsec ubi dicta dedit, cunc~U fimul ore freme- 
bant, 
Fleetwoodque, et Plumptree, et vultu Stanley 

fevero, 
Plagiary Baines, fanctufque Trevor, fanctufque 
Sir Ofwald. 
Nefcio qui nem. con. turn facti denique mo- 
tions, 
Difcedit meeting. Ego te, mea Mufa, petivi. 
— Dr. Maginn, in Frafer's Magazine, May, 1836. 



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THE SECOND EPODE OF HORACE. 



DR. MAGINN. 



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LEST man, who far from bufy hum, 
Ut prifca gens.mortalium, 
Whittles his team afield with glee 

Solutus omni fenore : 

He lives in peace, from battles free, 

Neq' horret irratum mare ; 

And fhuns the forum, and the gay 

Potentiorum limina, 

Therefore to vines of purple glofs 

Atlas maritat populos, 

Or pruning off the boughs unfit 

Feliciores inferit ; 

Or, in a diftant vale at eafe 

Profpectat errantes greges \ 

Or honey into jars conveys 

Aut tondet infirmas oves. 

When his head decked with apples fweet 

Auctumnus agris extulit, 

At plucking pears he 's quite au-fait 

Certant, et uvam purpuras. 

Some for Priapus, for thee fome 

Sylvare, tutor finium ! 

Beneath an oak ''tis fweet to be 

Mod' 



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Mod' in tenaci gramine : 

The ftreamlet winds in flowing maze ; 

Queruntur in filvis aves ; 

The fount in dulcet murmur plays 

Somnos quod invitet leves. 

But when winter comes, (and that 

Imbres nivefque comparat,) 

With dogs he forces oft to pafs 

Apros in obftantes plagas ; 

Or fpreads his nets fo thick and clofe 

Turdis edacibus dolos ; 

Or hares, or cranes, from far away 

Jucunda captat prasmia : 

The wooer, love's unhappy ftir, 

Haec inter oblivifcitur, 

His wife can manage without lofs 

Domum et parvos liberos ; 

(Suppofe her Sabine, or the dry 

Pernicis uxor Appuli,) 

Who piles the facred hearthftone high 

Laffi fub adventum viri, 

And from his ewes, penned left they ftray, 

Diftenta ficcet ubera ; 

And this year's wine difpofed to get 

Dapes inemtas apparet. 

Oyfters to me no joys fupply, 

Magifve rhombus, aut fcari, 

(If when the eaft winds boifterous be 

Hiems 



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^onic Hiems ad hoc vertat mare ;) 
Poetry Your Turkey pout is not to us, 

Non attagen Ionicus, 

So fweet as what we pick at home 

Oliva ramis arborum ; 

Or forrel, which the meads fupply, 

Malvae falubres corpori — 

Or lamb, flain at a feftal mow 

Vel haedus ereptus lupo. 

Feafting, 'tis fweet the creature's dumb, 

Videre prop'rantes domum, 

Or oxen with the ploughfhare go, 

Collo trahentes languido ; 

And all the Haves ftretched out at eafe, 

Circum renidentes Lares ! 

Alphius the ufurer, babbled thus, 

Jam jam futurus rufticus, 

Called in his caft on th' Ides — but he 

Quaerit Kalendis ponere ! 

— Maginn Mifcellanies. 




MALUM OPUS. 

CARMEN MACARONICUM. 
I. 



Prope ripam fluvii folus 
A fenex filently fat ; 
Super capitem ecce his wig, 
Et wig fuper, ecce his hat. 



ii. 



Blew Zephyrus alte, acerbus, 
Dum elderly gentleman fat ; 
Et a capite took up quite torve 
Et in rivum projecit his hat. 



in. 
Tunc foft maledixit the old man, 
Tunc {looped from the bank where he fat 
Et cum fcipio poked in the water, 
Conatus fervare his hat. 

IV. 

Blew Zephyrus alte, acerbus, 
The moment it faw him at that ; 
Et whifked his novum fcratch wig 
In flumen, along with his hat. 
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Ab imo pe6lore damnavit 
In coeruleus eye dolor fat ; 
Tunc defpairingly threw in his cane 
Nare cum his wig and his hat. 



L'ENVOr. 

Contra bonos mores, don't fwear 
It 'eft wicked you know (verbum fat), 
Si this tale habet no other moral 
.Mehercle ! you're gratus to that ! 

— J. A. M. 





LYDIA GREEN. 



CARMEN MACARONICUM. 



In Refpublicam Jerfey, 
There nunquam was feen 
Puella pulchrior, 
Ac Lydia Green ; 
Fafcinans quam bellis 
Vel lilium, et id., 
Et Jacobus Brown 
Was" ladles "* on Lyd. 



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II. 

Ad Jacobum Brown 

Semel Lydia, loquitur ; 

" Si fidem violaris, 

I'd lay down and die, fir." 

" Si my Lydia dear 

I ever forget " — 

Turn refpondit — "I hope 

To be roafted and ate." 



in. 



Sed, though Jacob had fworn 
Pro aris et focis, 

* " Ladles," id ejl, very fpooney ! 



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Maca- He went off and left Lydia 

R0NIC T-X 

Poetry Deferta, lachrymons. 

In lachrymis folvis 
She fobbed and me fighed ; 
And at laft, corde fract-a, 
Turned over and died. 



IV. 

Tunc Jacobus Brown. 

Se expedire pains 

That gnawed his chords cordis, 

Went out on the plains, 

And quum he got there, 

"Oi BdpJSapoL met him, 

Accenderunt ignem 

Et roafted et ate him. 

— y. A. M. 




CHANSON WITHOUT MUSIC. 

BY THE PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF DEAD AND LIVING 

LANGUAGES. 

($. B. K. Cambridge, 1869.) 

You bid me fing — can I forget 

The claffic ode of days gone by, — 
How belle Fifine and jeune Lifette 

Exclaimed, " Anacreon yepwv et ? " 
"Regardez done," thofe ladies faid — 

" You're getting bald and wrinkled too : 
When fummer's rofes are all fried, 

Love's nullum ite, voyez vous ! " 

In vain ce brave Anacreon's cry, 

"Of love alone my banjo fings " 
("EpojTa, jxovvov). " Etiam fi, — 

Eh b'en ? " replied thofe faucy things,— 
" Go find a maid whofe hair is gray, 

And ftrike your lyre — we fha'n't complain ; 
But parce nobis, f il vous plait, — 

Voila Adolphe ! Voila Eugene ! " 

Ah jeune Lifette ! ah belle Fifine ! 

Anacreon's leffon all mull learn ; 
*0 Kcupos '0£us ; Spring is green, 

But acer Hiems waits his turn ! 



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I hear you whifpering from the duft, 
" Tiens, mon cher, c'eft toujours fo, — 

The brighter! blade grows dim with duft, 
The faireft meadow white with fnow ! " 

You do not mean it ? Not encore ? 

Another firing of playday rhymes ? 
You've heard me — nonne eft ? — before, 

Multoties, — more than twenty times ; 
Non poffum, — vraiment — pas du tout, 

I cannot, I am loath to fhirk ; 
But who will liften if I do, 

My memory makes fuch {hocking work ? 

riyvwo-Kw. Scio. Yes, I'm told 

Some ancients like my rufty lay, 
As Grandpa Noah loved the old 

Red-fandftone march of Jubal's day. 
I ufed to carol like the birds, 

But time my wits has quite unfixed, 
Et quoad verba — for my words — 

Ciel — Eheu ! Whe-ew ! how they're mixed ! 

Mehercle ! ZeC. Diable ! how 

My thoughts were dreffed when I was young. 
But tempus fugit — fee them now 

Half clad in rags of every tongue ! 

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O $1X01, fratres, chers amis ! 

I dare not court the youthful mufe, 
For fear her fharp refponfe fhould be — 

" Papa Anacreon — pleafe excufe ! " 

Adieu ! I've trod my annual track 

How long ! — let others count the miles, — 
And peddled out my rhyming pack 

To friends who always paid in fmiles, 
So laiffez moi ! fome youthful wit 

No doubt has wares he wants to fhow, 
And I am afking " let me fit " 

Dum ille clamat " Aos ttov o-rto." 

Dr. Holmes, in " Atlantic Monthly," November, 1867. 



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Geist und finn mich beutzen iiber 
Vous zu dire das ich fie \ieb6 ? 
Das herz que vous fo lightly fpurn 
To you und fie allein will turn 
Unbarmherzig — pourquoir fcorn 
Mon coeur with love and anguifh torn 
Croyez vous das my defpair 
Votre bonheur can fwell or faire ? 
Schonheit kann nicht cruel fein 
Mepris ift kein macht divine 
Then, O then, it can't be thine. 
Glaube das mine love is true 
Changeless, deep wie Himmel's blue - 
Que l'amour that now I fwear 
Zue dir ewigkeit I'll bear 
Glaube das de gentle rays 
Born and nourifhed in thy gaze 
Sur mon cceur will ever dwell 
Comme a' l'inftant when they fell — 
Mechante ! that you know full well. 







POME OF A POSSUM. 



The nox was lit by lux of Luna, 

And 'twas nox moft opportuna 

To catch a poffum or a coona ; 

For nix was fcattered o'er this mundus, 

A mallow nix, et non profundus. 

On fie a nox with canis unus, 

Two boys went out to hunt for coonus, 

Unis canis, duo puer, 
Nunquam braver, nunquam truer, 
Quam hoc trio unquam fuit, 
If there was I never knew it. 
The corpus of this bonus canis, 
Was full as long as oclo fpan is, 
But brevior legs had canis never 
Quam had hie dog ; et bonus clever 
Some ufed to fay, in ftultum jocum, 
Quod a field was too fmall locum 
For fie a dog to make a turnus 
Circum felf from Item to fternus, 

This bonus dog had one bad habit, 
Amabat much to tree a rabbit ; 
Amabat plus to chafe a rattus, 
Amabat bene tree a cattus. 
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Maca- This old canis did iuft right. 

RONIC J ° 

Poetry Nunquam treed a ftarving rattus, 

Nunquam chafed a ftarving cattus, 

But cucurrit on, intentus, 

On the track and on the fcentus, 

Till he treed a poffum ftrongum, 

In a hollow trunkum longum, 

Loud he barked, in horrid bellum, 

Seemed on terra venit pellum, 

Quickly ran the duo puer 

Mors of poffum to fecure, 

Quum venerit, one began 

To chop away like quifque man, 

Soon the axe went through the truncum. 

Soon he hit it all kerchunkum ; 

Combat deepens ; on ye braves ! 

Canis, pueri et ftaves ; 

As his powers non longuis tarry, 

Poffum. poteft non pugnare, 

On the nix his corpus lieth, 

Down to Hades fpirit flieth, 

Joyful pueri, canis bonus, 

Think him dead as any ftonus. 

Now they feek their pater's domo, 
Feeling proud as any homo, 
Knowing, certe, they will bloffom 
Into heroes, when with poffum 



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They arrive, narrabunt ftory, • 
Plenus blood et plenior glory. 
Pompey, David, Samfon, Caefar, 
Cyrus, Blackhawk, Shalmanefer ! 
Tell me where eft now the gloria, 
Where the honors of Victoria ? 

Quuum ad domum narrent ftory, 
Plenus fanguine, tragic, gory. 
Pater praifeth, like wife mater, 
Wonders greatly younger frater. 
Poffum leave they on the mundus, 
Go themfelves to fleep profundus, 
Somniunt poffums flain in battle, 
Strong as urfae, large as cattle. 

"A* ^> tP TV "Tr 

When nox gives way to lux of morning, — 

Albam terram much adorning, — 

Up they jump to fee the varmen, 

Of the which this is the carmen. 

Lo ! poffum eft refurre6lum ! 

Ecce pueri dejeclum. 

Ne relinquit track behind him, 

Et the pueri never find him. 

Cruel poffum ! beftia vileft, 

How the pueros thou beguileft ; 

Pueri think non plus of Caefar, 

Go ad Orcum, Shalmanefer, 

Take your laurels, cum the honor, 

Since ifta poffum is a goner ! 

— Anonymous. 



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A TREATISE ON WINE. 



The beft tree, if ye take intent, 

Poetry J nter lig na fru&ifera, 

Is the vine tree by good argument, 
Dulcia ferens pondera. 

Saint Luke faith in his Gofpel 

Arbor fructu nofcitur, 
The vine beareth wine as I you tell, 

Hinc aliis praeponitur. 

The firft that planted the vineyard 

Manet in coeli gaudio, 
His name was Noe, as I am learned 

Genefis teftimonio. 

God gave unto him knowledge and wit, 

A quo procedunt omnia, 
Firft of the grape wine for to get, 

Propter magna myfteria. 

The firft miracle that Jefus did, 

Erat in vino rubeo, 
In Cana of Galilee it betide 

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He changed water into wine 

Aquae rubefcunt hydriae, 
And bade give it to Archetcline, 

Ut guftet tunc primarie. 

Like as the rofe exceedeth all flowers, 

Inter cuncta florigera, 
So doth wine all other liquors, 

Dans multa falutifera. 

David, the prophet, faith that wine 

Laetificat cor hominis, 
It maketh men merry if it be fine, 

Eft ergo digni nominis. 

It nourifheth age if it be good, 

Facit ut effet juvenis, 
It gendereth in us gentle blood, 

Nam venas purgat fanguinis. 

By all thefe caufes, ye mould think 

Quae funt rationabiles, 
That good wine mould be the beft of drink, 

Inter potus potabiles. 



Wine drinkers all, with great honor, 
Semper laudate Dominum, 



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Maca- The which fendeth the good liquor 
Poetry Propter falutem hominum. 

Plenty to all that love good wine 

Donet Deus largius, 
And bring them fome when they go hence, 

Ubi non fitient amplius. 

— Richard Hilles, 1535. 




AM RHEIN. 

Oh the Rhine, the Rhine, the Rhine — 
Comme c'eft beau ! wie fchon, che bello ! 

He who quaffs thy Luft and Wein, 
Morbleu ! is a lucky fellow. 

How I love thy rufhing ftreams, 

Groves and am and burch and hazel, 

From Schaffhaufen's rainbow beams 
Jusqu'a l'echo d'Oberwefel ! 

O, que j'aime thy Briichen, when 

The crammed Dampfschiff gayly paffes ! 

Love the bronzed pipes of thy men, 
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Oh ! que j'aime the " oui," the "bah/' 
From the motley crowd that flow, 

With the univerfal "ja," 
And the Allgemeine " fo ! " 

— Gfeanings for the Curious. 




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TO A FRIEND AT PARTING. 

I often wifhed I had a friend, 

Dem ich mich anvertrauen konnt, 

A friend in whom I could confide, 

Der mit mir theilte Freud und Leid ; 

Had I the riches of Girard — 

Ich theilte mit ihm Haus und Heerd : 

For what is gold ? 'Tis but a pafling metal, 

Der Henker hoi' fur mich den ganzen Bettel. 

Could I purchafe the world to live in it alone, 

Ich gab', dafiir nich eine noble Bohn' ; 

I thought one time in you I'd find that friend, 

Und glaubte fchon mein Sehnen hat ein End ; 

Alas ! your friendlhip lafted but in fight, 

Doch meine grenzet an die Ewigkeit. 

— Gleanings for the Curious. 



piig!!i!P» 
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AD PROFESSOREM LINGUAE GERMANICS. 

O why now fprechen Sie Deutfch ? 

What pleafure fay can Sie haben ? 
You cannot imagine how much 

You bother unfortunate Knaben. 

Liebfter Freund ! give beffere work, 
Nicht fo hard, ein kurtzerer leffon, 

O then we will nicht try to mirk 
Und unfer will gaben Sie bleffrn'. 

O, afk us nicht now to decline 

" Meines Bruders groffere Haufer ; " 

" Die Faffer " of " alt rother Wein " 
Can give us no poffible joy, fir. 

Der Miiller may tragen ein Rock 
Eat fchwartz Brod und dem Kaf e, 

Die Gans may be hangen on hoch. 
But what can it matter to me, fir ? 

Return zu Ihr own native tongue, 

Leave Deutfch und Sauer Kraut to the 
Dutchmen ; 
And feek not to teach to the young 
The Sprache belonging to fuch men. 

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Und now 'tis my folemn belief 

That if you nicht grant this petition, 

Sie muft fchreiben mein Vater ein Brief, 
To fay that ich hab' ein " Condition." 

— Ein Armer Sckuler, in " Yale Courant. 




" ICH BIN DEIN." 

In tempus old a hero lived, 
Qui loved puellas deux ; 

He ne pouvait pas quite to fay 
Which one amabat mieux. 



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Dit-il lui-meme, un beau matin, 
" Non poffum both avoir, 

Sed fi addrefs Amanda Ann, 
Then Kate and I have war." 

Amanda habet argent coin, 
Sed Kate has aureas curls : 

Et both funt very dyaOa f 
Et quite formofa girls." 

Enfin, the youthful anthropos, 
<KA.ow the duo maids, 

Refolved proponere ad Kate 
Devant cet evening's fhades. 



Procedens then to Kate's domo, 
II trouve Amanda there ; 

Kat quite forgot his good refolves, 
Both funt fo goodly fair. 



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Maca- Sed, fmihng on the new tapis, 

RONIC , 

Poetry Between puellas twain, 

Ccepit to tell his flame to Kate 
Dans un poetique ftrain. 

Mais, glancing ever and anon 

At fair Amanda's eyes, 
Illae non poffunt dicere, 

Pro which he meant his fighs. t 

Each virgo heard the demi vow 
With cheeks as rouge as wine, 

And offering each a milk-white hand, 
Both whifpered " Ich bin dein." 

— Anonymous. 




DE LEGULEIO. 

Jurifconfultus juvenis folus, 

Sat fcanning his tenuem docket, — 

Volo, quoth he, fome bonus ^Eolus 
Infpiret fees to my pocket. 

He feized in manu finiftra ejus 

A tome of Noy, or Fortefcue ; 
Here's a cafe, faid he, terrible tedious, — 

Fortuna veni to my refcue ! 

Lex fcripta's nought but legal deluvium, 

Defluxum ftreams of paft ages, 
And lawyers fit like ducks in a pluvium, 

Under laws reigning adages. 

Lex non fcripta's good for confciences tender, 

Perfequi the light internal ; 
Sed homines faepius homage render 

Ad lucem that burns infernal. 

Effodi the faid diluvium over, 

As do all legal beginners, 
Et crede vivere hence in clover, 

That's fown by quarrelfome finners. 

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Some think the law effe hum fcarabeum, 

And lawyers a ufelefs evil, 
And Statute claim of tuum and meum 

Is but a device of the devil ; 

Sed pravi homines funt fo thick that, 

Without reftrictio legis, 
Effet crime plufquam one could make flick at, 

By order diaboli regis. 

Et good men, rari gurgite vafto, 

Are digni the law's affiftance, 
Defendere fe, et aid them fo as to 

Keep nefas et vim at a diftance. 

The lawyer 's his client's rights' defender, 

And bound laborare aftute, 
Videre that qua^quae res agenda 

Dignitate et virtute. 

Sed ecce ! a cafe exactly ad punctum. 

Id fcribam, ante forget it, 
Negotium illud nunc perfunclum, 

Feliciter, I have met it. 

He thruft out dextrae digitos manus, 

His pennam ad ink ille dedit ; 
Et fcripfit, — but any homo fanus 

Would be nonfuit ere he could read it. 

— A.B.Ely. 




FROM THE "POLEMO MIDDINA." 

Convocat extemplo burrowmannos atque la- 

daeos, 
Jackmannumque, hiremannos, pleughdrivefters 

atque pleughmannos, 
Tumulantefque fimul recofe et kitchen bpyos, 
Hunc qui dirte feras terfit cum difhclouty 

difhas, 
Hunc qui gruelias fcivit bene lickere plattas, 
Ex faltpannifumos, et widebricatos fifheros, 
Hellaeifque etiam falteros duxit ab autois 
Coal heughos, nigri gignantes more Divelli 
Magguearn magis do&am milkare cuaeas. 
Et doclam fuepare fleuraes et flernere beddas ; 
Quaeque novit fkinnare, et longas ducere thred- 

das 
Naufeam, claves bene quae keepaverat omnes ; 
Yellentamque Hellam, longaberdamque ana- 

bellam, 
Egregio indultam blacko caput futy clouto j 
Quaeque lanam cardare folet greafy - fingria 

Betty. 

— Drummond of Hawthornden, 1691. 



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TO THE FAIR COME-OUTER, 

WHOM I HEARD ADDRESS THE WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE 
MEETING IN STEINWAY HALL. 

{Carmen Macaronicum*) 

Lady ! formofiffima tu ! 
Caeruleis oculis have you, 

Ditto nofe ! 
Et vous n'avez pas une faute — 
And that you are going to vote 

Goodnefs knows ! 

And the rofeus on your cheek — 
And your Algebra and Greek 

Are parfait ! 
And your j actus oculi 
Knows each ftar that mines in the 

Milky Way ! 

You have pouting, piquant lips, 
Sans doute vous pouvez an eclipfe' 

Calculate ; 
Ne caerulum colorantur, 
I mould have in you, inftanter 

Met my fate I 

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Si, by fome arrangement dual, 
I at once were Kant and Whewell 

It would pay — 
Procus noti then to come 
To fo fvveet an Artium 

Magiftra ! 

Or, Jewel of Confiftency,* 

Si pofTem clear-ftarch, cookere, 

Votre learning 
Might the leges profcribere — 
Do the pro patria mori, 



I, the churning. 



J.A.M. 



* We cannot forbear remarking, in this connection, 
that the quotation " Confrftency 's a jewel " is the one 
which has longeft and molt hopeleflly baffled critic, 
fcholar, and virtuofo ; large rewards having been, we 
believe, at different times offered for the difcavery of its 
fource ; while the fearch has been all the more perplex- 
ing in that the expreffion appears contemporaneoufly at 
different periods. 

It is now claimed, however, fhat it is to be originally 
found in the " Ballad of Jolly Robyn Roughhead," 
printed in Murtag/i's Collection of Ancient Englijk and 
Scotti/h Ballads. The verfe in which it occurs is as fol- 
lows : — 

Tuih, Tufh, my laffie, fuch thoughts refign, 

Companions are cruel ; 
Fine pictures fuit in frames as fine, 

ConfiJle?icy 's a jewel : 
For thee and me coarfe clothes are beft, 
Rude folks in homely raiment dreft — 
Wife Joan and goodman Robyn ! 



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POCAHONTAS AND CAPTAIN SMITH, JAMES- 
TOWN, a. d. 1607. 

Johannes Smithus, walking up a ftreetus, 
met two ingentes Ingins et parvulus Ingin. In- 
gins non capti funt ab Johanne, fed Johannes 
captus eft ab ingentibus Inginibus. Parvulus 
Ingin run off hollerin, et terrimficatus eft 
moft to death. Big Ingin removit Johan- 
nem ad tentum, ad campum, ad marlhy placem, 
papoofem, pipe of peacem, bogibus, fquawque. 
Quum Johannes examinatus eft ab Inginibus, 
they condemnati funt eum to be cracked on 
capitem ab clubbibus. Et a big Ingin was 
going to ftrikaturus effe Smithum with a club- 
be, quum Pocahontas came trembling down, 
et hollerin, " Don't ye duit, don't ye duit ! " 
Sic Johannes non periit, fed grew fat on corn 

bread et hominy. 

Anonymous. 




MACARONIC INSCRIPTIONS. 

AT INTERLACHEN. 

In quefta cafa trovarete 

Toutes les chofes que vous fouhaitez ; 

Vinum bonum, coctos, carnes, 

Neat poft-chaife, and horfe and harnefs, 



On the Visitors' 



Book of the Mount Kiarsarge 
House. 



{Stim?nit of Mt. Kiarfarge, North Conway, N. H.) 

Sic itur ad Aftra, together ; 

But much as we afpire, 
No purfe of gold, this fummer weather, 

Could hire us to go higher ! 



In the Visitors' Book at Niagara Falls. 

Tres fratres ftolidii, 
Took a boat at Niagri • 
Stormus arofe et windus erat, 
Magnum frothum furgebat, 
Et boatum overturnebat, 
Et omnes drowndiderunt 
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At Canterbury. 
Bifrons, atque Cuflos, Bos, Fur, Sus, atque Sacerdos. 

Bifrons, even when he preaches ; 
Cuflos, of what within his reach is ; 
Bos, among his neighbor's wives ; 
Fur, in gathering of tithes ; 
Sus, at every Parifh feaft ; 
On Sunday, facerdos, a prieft. 



ON THE SIGN OF " THE GENTLE SHEPHERD 

OF SALISBURY PLAIN," 

On the road from Cape Town to Simon's Bay, Cape of 

Good Hope. 

Multum in parvo, pro bono publico ; 

Entertainment for man or beaft all pi a row. 

Lekker hoft as much as you pleafe ; 

Excellent beds without any fleas, 

Nos patrum fugimus — now we are here, 

Vivamus, let us live by felling beer. 

On donne a boire et a manner ici ; 

Come in and try it, whoever you be. 

The gentle Shepherd of Salisbury Plain. 



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